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Transit · 2014

Kepler-186 c

This world receives 14× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 7.27 days; the light you see left it 579 years ago.

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Size
1.3 × Earth 
A year
7.27 days0.0451 AU
Temperature
191 °C464 K

About this world

Kepler-186 c is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-186, a cool red dwarf (type M1) 579 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.3 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 7.27 days at 0.045 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 464 K (191 °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-186 has 5 known planets; the others are Kepler-186 b, Kepler-186 d, Kepler-186 e and Kepler-186 f.

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