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Transit · 2015

Kepler-450 d

This world receives 557× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 7.51 days; the light you see left it 1.49 thousand years ago.

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Size
0.84 × Earth 
A year
7.51 days0.0827 AU
Temperature
926 °C1,199 K

About this world

Kepler-450 d is an Earth-sized planet orbiting Kepler-450, a yellow-white F-type star 1.49 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 0.84 times the size of Earth and holds 18 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 7.51 days at 0.083 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,199 K (926 °C): far too hot 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. Kepler-450 has 3 known planets; the others are Kepler-450 c and Kepler-450 b.

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