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Transit · 2014

Kepler-378 b

This world receives 17.8× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 16.1 days; the light you see left it 496 years ago.

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Size
0.75 × Earth 
A year
16.1 days0.112 AU
Temperature
230 °C503 K

About this world

Kepler-378 b is an Earth-sized planet orbiting Kepler-378, an orange dwarf 496 light-years from Earth. It is about 0.75 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 16.1 days at 0.11 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 503 K (230 °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-378 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-378 c.

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