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Transit · 2016

Kepler-1620 b

This world receives 7.92× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 102 days; the light you see left it 2.92 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.6 × Earth 
A year
102 days0.432 AU
Temperature
155 °C428 K

About this world

Kepler-1620 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-1620, a yellow-white F-type star 2.92 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.6 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 102 days at 0.43 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 428 K (155 °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 2016 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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