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Transit · 2021

Kepler-1923 b

This world receives 8.63× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 52.6 days; the light you see left it 3.23 thousand years ago.

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Size
2 × Earth 
A year
52.6 days0.285 AU
Temperature
280 °C553 K

About this world

Kepler-1923 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-1923, a yellow, Sun-like star 3.23 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 52.6 days at 0.28 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 553 K (280 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.

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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