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Transit · 2011

Kepler-25 c

This world receives 210× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 12.7 days; the light you see left it 793 years ago.

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Size
5.2 × Earth 
A year
12.7 days0.112 AU
Temperature
661 °C934 K

About this world

Kepler-25 c is a Neptune-like planet orbiting Kepler-25, a yellow-white F-type star (type F8) 793 light-years from Earth. It is about 5.2 times the size of Earth and holds 15 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 12.7 days at 0.11 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 934 K (661 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium. Its atmosphere has already been studied: 2 spectroscopic observations.

It was discovered in 2011 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-25 has 3 known planets; the others are Kepler-25 b and Kepler-25 d.

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