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Transit · 2023

Kepler-1994 b

This world receives 268× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 4.61 days; the light you see left it 789 years ago.

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Size
0.51 × Earth 
A year
4.61 days0.053 AU
Temperature
759 °C1,032 K

About this world

Kepler-1994 b is an Earth-sized planet orbiting Kepler-1994, a yellow, Sun-like star 789 light-years from Earth. It is about 0.51 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 4.61 days at 0.053 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,032 K (759 °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 2023 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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