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Transit · 2014

Kepler-303 c

This world receives 25.9× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 7.06 days; the light you see left it 684 years ago.

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Size
1.1 × Earth 
A year
7.06 days0.057 AU
Temperature
248 °C521 K

About this world

Kepler-303 c is an Earth-sized planet orbiting Kepler-303, a cool red dwarf (type M0V) 684 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.1 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 7.06 days at 0.057 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 521 K (248 °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-303 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-303 b.

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