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Transit · 2016

Kepler-475 b

This world receives 215× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 3.11 days; the light you see left it 913 years ago.

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Size
2.5 × Earth 
A year
3.11 days0.0399 AU
Temperature
707 °C980 K

About this world

Kepler-475 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-475, an orange dwarf 913 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.5 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 3.11 days at 0.04 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 980 K (707 °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 2016 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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