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Transit · 2021

Kepler-799 c

This world receives 150× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 15.2 days; the light you see left it 4.92 thousand years ago.

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Size
2.8 × Earth 
A year
15.2 days0.121 AU
Temperature
620 °C893 K

About this world

Kepler-799 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-799, a yellow, Sun-like star 4.92 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2.8 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 15.2 days at 0.12 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 893 K (620 °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 2021 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-799 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-799 b.

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