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Transit · 2016

Kepler-245 e

This world receives 240× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 3.22 days; the light you see left it 2.81 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.8 × Earth 
A year
3.22 days0.0405 AU
Temperature
725 °C998 K

About this world

Kepler-245 e is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-245, an orange dwarf 2.81 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.8 times the size of Earth and holds 1,806 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 3.22 days at 0.041 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 998 K (725 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.

It was discovered in 2016 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-245 has 4 known planets; the others are Kepler-245 b, Kepler-245 c and Kepler-245 d.

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