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Transit · 2016

Kepler-519 b

This world receives 19.9× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 24.3 days; the light you see left it 804 years ago.

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Size
2.1 × Earth 
A year
24.3 days0.159 AU
Temperature
259 °C532 K

About this world

Kepler-519 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-519, a yellow, Sun-like star 804 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.1 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 24.3 days at 0.16 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 532 K (259 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", its star has probably stripped its atmosphere away, leaving bare rock.

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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