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Transit · 2021

Kepler-1938 b

This world receives 18.3× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 13.1 days; the light you see left it 1.37 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.8 × Earth 
A year
13.1 days0.0938 AU
Temperature
254 °C527 K

About this world

Kepler-1938 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-1938, an orange dwarf 1.37 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.8 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 13.1 days at 0.094 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 527 K (254 °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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