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Transit · 2021

Kepler-1802 b

This world receives 26.9× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 15.5 days; the light you see left it 2.08 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.7 × Earth 
A year
15.5 days0.0662 AU
Temperature
308 °C581 K

About this world

Kepler-1802 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-1802, an orange dwarf 2.08 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.7 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 15.5 days at 0.066 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 581 K (308 °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. Kepler-1802 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-1802 c.

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