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Transit · 2014

Kepler-202 b

This world receives 109× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 4.07 days; the light you see left it 930 years ago.

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Size
1.6 × Earth 
A year
4.07 days0.045 AU
Temperature
529 °C802 K

About this world

Kepler-202 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-202, an orange dwarf 930 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.6 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 4.07 days at 0.045 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 802 K (529 °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 2014 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-202 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-202 c.

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