About this world
Kepler-176 e is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-176, a yellow, Sun-like star 1.72 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.4 times the size of Earth and holds 0.52 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 51.2 days at 0.26 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 398 K (125 °C): too cold 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 2016 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-176 has 4 known planets; the others are Kepler-176 b, Kepler-176 c and Kepler-176 d.