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Transit · 2015

Kepler-430 b

This world receives 40.8× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 36 days; the light you see left it 2.99 thousand years ago.

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Size
3.3 × Earth 
A year
36 days0.224 AU
Temperature
394 °C667 K

About this world

Kepler-430 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-430, a yellow, Sun-like star 2.99 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 3.3 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 36 days at 0.22 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 667 K (394 °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 2015 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-430 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-430 c.

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