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Transit · 2021

Kepler-1950 b

This world receives 75.8× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 10.8 days; the light you see left it 2.27 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.5 × Earth 
A year
10.8 days0.0871 AU
Temperature
479 °C752 K

About this world

Kepler-1950 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-1950, a yellow, Sun-like star 2.27 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.5 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 10.8 days at 0.087 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 752 K (479 °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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