PlanetHunt
PlanetHunt › Explore › Kepler-722 › Kepler-722 c
Transit · 2016

Kepler-722 c

This world receives 5.48× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 105 days; the light you see left it 4.04 thousand years ago.

Opens the PlanetHunt visor at this world · WebGL
Size
2.8 × Earth 
A year
105 days0.447 AU
Temperature
128 °C401 K

About this world

Kepler-722 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-722, a yellow, Sun-like star 4.04 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2.8 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 105 days at 0.45 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-722 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-722 b.

Other worlds of Kepler-722

Explore more