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Transit · 2016

Kepler-783 b

This world receives 229× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 4.29 days; the light you see left it 1.68 thousand years ago.

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Size
0.78 × Earth 
A year
4.29 days0.0496 AU
Temperature
718 °C991 K

About this world

Kepler-783 b is an Earth-sized planet orbiting Kepler-783, a yellow, Sun-like star 1.68 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 0.78 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 4.29 days at 0.05 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 991 K (718 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", its star has probably stripped its atmosphere away, leaving bare rock.

It was discovered in 2016 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-783 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-783 c.

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