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Transit · 2016

Kepler-1459 b

This world receives 3.51× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 62.9 days; the light you see left it 1.49 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.4 × Earth 
A year
62.9 days0.283 AU
Temperature
76 °C349 K

About this world

Kepler-1459 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-1459, an orange dwarf 1.49 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.4 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 62.9 days at 0.28 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 349 K (76 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.

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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