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Transit · 2021

Kepler-1741 b

This world receives 33.8× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 2.76 days; the light you see left it 883 years ago.

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Size
1.3 × Earth 
A year
2.76 days0.0296 AU
Temperature
342 °C615 K

About this world

Kepler-1741 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-1741, a cool red dwarf 883 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.3 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 2.76 days at 0.03 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 615 K (342 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", its star has probably stripped its atmosphere away, leaving bare rock.

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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