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Transit · 2016

Kepler-1488 b

This world receives 73.3× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 39.8 days; the light you see left it 2.95 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.9 × Earth 
A year
39.8 days0.242 AU
Temperature
377 °C650 K

About this world

Kepler-1488 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-1488, a yellow, Sun-like star 2.95 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.9 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 39.8 days at 0.24 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 650 K (377 °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. Kepler-1488 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-1488 c.

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