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Transit · 2016

Kepler-589 b

This world receives 32.1× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 16.5 days; the light you see left it 2 thousand years ago.

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Size
2.3 × Earth 
A year
16.5 days0.12 AU
Temperature
383 °C656 K

About this world

Kepler-589 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-589, a yellow, Sun-like star 2 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2.3 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 16.5 days at 0.12 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 656 K (383 °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. Kepler-589 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-589 c.

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