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Transit · 2021

Kepler-1809 b

This world receives 158× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 3.76 days; the light you see left it 1.34 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.5 × Earth 
A year
3.76 days0.0444 AU
Temperature
604 °C877 K

About this world

Kepler-1809 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-1809, an orange dwarf 1.34 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.5 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 3.76 days at 0.044 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 877 K (604 °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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