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Transit · 2015

Kepler-441 b

This world receives 4.76× less starlight than Earth; a year lasts 207 days; the light you see left it 874 years ago.

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Size
1.6 × Earth 
A year
207 days0.64 AU
Temperature
−84 °C189 K

About this world

Kepler-441 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-441, an orange dwarf 874 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.6 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 207 days at 0.64 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 189 K (−84 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.

It was discovered in 2015 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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