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Transit · 2016

Kepler-603 c

This world receives 8.8× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 128 days; the light you see left it 5.02 thousand years ago.

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Size
0.58 × Jupiter 
A year
128 days0.534 AU
Temperature
128 °C401 K

About this world

Kepler-603 c is a Neptune-like planet orbiting Kepler-603, a yellow, Sun-like star 5.02 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 0.58 times the size of Jupiter. It completes an orbit every 128 days at 0.53 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 401 K (128 °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-603 has 3 known planets; the others are Kepler-603 d and Kepler-603 b.

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