About this world
Kepler-1540 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-1540, an orange dwarf 799 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.5 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 125 days at 0.44 AU from its star.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 266 K (−7 °C), which places it in the conservative habitable zone: the band where liquid water could exist on a rocky 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.