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Transit · 2016

Kepler-834 b

This world receives 11.8× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 13.3 days; the light you see left it 2.07 thousand years ago.

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Size
2 × Earth 
A year
13.3 days0.0862 AU
Temperature
105 °C378 K

About this world

Kepler-834 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-834, an orange dwarf 2.07 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 13.3 days at 0.086 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 378 K (105 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.

It was discovered in 2016 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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