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Transit · 2016

Kepler-560 b

This world receives 2.46× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 18.5 days; the light you see left it 357 years ago.

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Size
1.7 × Earth 
A year
18.5 days0.0899 AU
Temperature
25 °C298 K

About this world

Kepler-560 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-560, a cool red dwarf 357 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.7 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 18.5 days at 0.09 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 298 K (25 °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 2016 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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