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Transit · 2014

Kepler-416 b

This world receives 224× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 6.32 days; the light you see left it 2.25 thousand years ago.

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Size
2.5 × Earth 
A year
6.32 days0.0674 AU
Temperature
713 °C986 K

About this world

Kepler-416 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-416, a yellow, Sun-like star 2.25 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2.5 times the size of Earth and holds 58 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 6.32 days at 0.067 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 986 K (713 °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-416 has 3 known planets; the others are Kepler-416 d and Kepler-416 c.

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