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Transit · 2014

Kepler-181 c

This world receives 168× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 4.3 days; the light you see left it 1.99 thousand years ago.

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Size
2 × Earth 
A year
4.3 days0.049 AU
Temperature
664 °C937 K

About this world

Kepler-181 c is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-181, a yellow, Sun-like star 1.99 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 4.3 days at 0.049 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 937 K (664 °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 2014 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-181 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-181 b.

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