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Transit · 2016

Kepler-568 b

This world receives 8.37× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 11 days; the light you see left it 426 years ago.

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Size
2.3 × Earth 
A year
11 days0.0794 AU
Temperature
156 °C429 K

About this world

Kepler-568 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-568, a cool red dwarf 426 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.3 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 11 days at 0.079 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 429 K (156 °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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