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Transit · 2020

Kepler-1685 b

This world receives 36× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 20.5 days; the light you see left it 3.72 thousand years ago.

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Size
2.6 × Earth 
A year
20.5 days0.148 AU
Temperature
352 °C625 K

About this world

Kepler-1685 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-1685, a yellow, Sun-like star 3.72 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2.6 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 20.5 days at 0.15 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 625 K (352 °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 2020 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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