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Transit · 2016

Kepler-551 b

This world receives 14.4× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 12.4 days; the light you see left it 1.01 thousand years ago.

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Size
2.7 × Earth 
A year
12.4 days0.0893 AU
Temperature
210 °C483 K

About this world

Kepler-551 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-551, an orange dwarf 1.01 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2.7 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 12.4 days at 0.089 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 483 K (210 °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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