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Transit · 2014

Kepler-371 b

This world receives 41.7× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 34.8 days; the light you see left it 2.65 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.9 × Earth 
A year
34.8 days0.2 AU
Temperature
281 °C554 K

About this world

Kepler-371 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-371, a yellow, Sun-like star 2.65 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.9 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 34.8 days at 0.2 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 554 K (281 °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-371 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-371 c.

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