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Transit · 2016

Kepler-1379 b

This world receives 1,600× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 21.2 hours; the light you see left it 3.17 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.3 × Earth 
A year
21.2 hours0.0171 AU
Temperature
1,291 °C1,564 K

About this world

Kepler-1379 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-1379, an orange dwarf 3.17 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.3 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 21.2 hours at 0.017 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,564 K (1,291 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", its star has probably stripped its atmosphere away, leaving bare rock.

It was discovered in 2016 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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