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Transit · 2014

Kepler-292 e

This world receives 50.9× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 12 days; the light you see left it 3.45 thousand years ago.

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Size
2.7 × Earth 
A year
12 days0.097 AU
Temperature
405 °C678 K

About this world

Kepler-292 e is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-292, a yellow, Sun-like star 3.45 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2.7 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 12 days at 0.097 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 678 K (405 °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 2014 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-292 has 5 known planets; the others are Kepler-292 b, Kepler-292 c, Kepler-292 d and Kepler-292 f.

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