About this world
Kepler-196 d is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-196, an orange dwarf 1.47 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2.7 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 122 days at 0.45 AU from its star.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 297 K (24 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.
It was discovered in 2021 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-196 has 3 known planets; the others are Kepler-196 b and Kepler-196 c.