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Transit · 2021

Kepler-1756 b

This world receives 338× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 2.36 days.

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Size
1.5 × Earth 
A year
2.36 days0.0319 AU
Temperature
820 °C1,093 K

About this world

Kepler-1756 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-1756, an orange dwarf. It is about 1.5 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 2.36 days at 0.032 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,093 K (820 °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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