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Transit · 2014

Kepler-139 c

This world receives 3.02× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 157 days; the light you see left it 1.28 thousand years ago.

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Size
3.4 × Earth 
A year
157 days0.586 AU
Temperature
77 °C350 K

About this world

Kepler-139 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-139, a yellow, Sun-like star 1.28 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 3.4 times the size of Earth and holds 13 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 157 days at 0.59 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 350 K (77 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2014 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-139 has 5 known planets; the others are Kepler-139 d, Kepler-139 b, Kepler-139 f and Kepler-139 e.

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