About this world
Kepler-1972 c is an Earth-sized planet orbiting Kepler-1972, a yellow, Sun-like star 937 light-years from Earth. It is about 0.87 times the size of Earth and holds 2.1 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 11.3 days at 0.1 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,215 K (942 °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 2022 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-1972 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-1972 b.