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Transit · 2014

Kepler-151 b

This world receives 40.7× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 15.2 days; the light you see left it 2.12 thousand years ago.

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Size
3.1 × Earth 
A year
15.2 days0.116 AU
Temperature
366 °C639 K

About this world

Kepler-151 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-151, a yellow, Sun-like star 2.12 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 3.1 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 15.2 days at 0.12 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 639 K (366 °C): far too hot 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-151 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-151 c.

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