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Transit · 2021

Kepler-1720 b

This world receives 55.9× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 12.7 days; the light you see left it 2.05 thousand years ago.

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Size
3.2 × Earth 
A year
12.7 days0.104 AU
Temperature
424 °C697 K

About this world

Kepler-1720 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-1720, a yellow, Sun-like star 2.05 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 3.2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 12.7 days at 0.1 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 697 K (424 °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 2021 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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