PlanetHunt
PlanetHunt › Explore › Kepler-1630 b
Transit · 2016

Kepler-1630 b

This world receives 3.85× less starlight than Earth; a year lasts 510 days; the light you see left it 1.08 thousand years ago.

Opens the PlanetHunt visor at this world · WebGL
Size
2.2 × Earth 
A year
510 days1.12 AU
Temperature
−91 °C182 K

About this world

Kepler-1630 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-1630, an orange dwarf 1.08 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2.2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 510 days at 1.1 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 182 K (−91 °C): too cold 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.

Explore more