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Transit · 2014

Kepler-149 c

This world receives 10.1× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 55.3 days; the light you see left it 1.86 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.6 × Earth 
A year
55.3 days0.281 AU
Temperature
163 °C436 K

About this world

Kepler-149 c is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-149, a yellow, Sun-like star 1.86 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.6 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 55.3 days at 0.28 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 436 K (163 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.

It was discovered in 2014 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-149 has 3 known planets; the others are Kepler-149 b and Kepler-149 d.

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