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Transit · 2014

Kepler-359 b

This world receives 23.9× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 25.6 days; the light you see left it 4.71 thousand years ago.

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Size
3.5 × Earth 
A year
25.6 days0.178 AU
Temperature
398 °C671 K

About this world

Kepler-359 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-359, a yellow-white F-type star 4.71 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 3.5 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 25.6 days at 0.18 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 671 K (398 °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-359 has 3 known planets; the others are Kepler-359 c and Kepler-359 d.

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