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Transit · 2014

Kepler-425 b

This world receives 229× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 3.8 days; the light you see left it 2.11 thousand years ago.

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Size
0.98 × Jupiter 
A year
3.8 days0.0464 AU
Temperature
797 °C1,070 K

About this world

Kepler-425 b is a gas giant orbiting Kepler-425, an orange dwarf (type K1V) 2.11 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 0.98 times the size of Jupiter and holds 0.25 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 3.8 days at 0.046 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.33).

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,070 K (797 °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.

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