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Transit · 2013

Kepler-276 c

This world receives 19.8× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 31.9 days; the light you see left it 3.73 thousand years ago.

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Size
2.9 × Earth 
A year
31.9 days0.186 AU
Temperature
290 °C563 K

About this world

Kepler-276 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-276, a yellow, Sun-like star 3.73 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2.9 times the size of Earth and holds 17 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 31.9 days at 0.19 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 563 K (290 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2013 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-276 has 3 known planets; the others are Kepler-276 b and Kepler-276 d.

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