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Transit · 2016

Kepler-154 d

This world receives 53× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 20.5 days; the light you see left it 2.99 thousand years ago.

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Size
3.8 × Earth 
A year
20.5 days0.144 AU
Temperature
384 °C657 K

About this world

Kepler-154 d is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-154, a yellow, Sun-like star 2.99 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 3.8 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 20.5 days at 0.14 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 657 K (384 °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 2016 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-154 has 5 known planets; the others are Kepler-154 e, Kepler-154 f, Kepler-154 b and Kepler-154 c.

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