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Transit · 2014

Kepler-400 b

This world receives 183× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 9.02 days; the light you see left it 2.76 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.6 × Earth 
A year
9.02 days0.087 AU
Temperature
666 °C939 K

About this world

Kepler-400 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-400, a yellow, Sun-like star 2.76 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.6 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 9.02 days at 0.087 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 939 K (666 °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-400 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-400 c.

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