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Transit · 2016

Kepler-849 b

This world receives 2.86× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 395 days; the light you see left it 2.68 thousand years ago.

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Size
0.72 × Jupiter 
A year
395 days1.14 AU
Temperature
90 °C363 K

About this world

Kepler-849 b is a Neptune-like planet orbiting Kepler-849, a yellow, Sun-like star 2.68 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 0.72 times the size of Jupiter and holds 0.94 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 395 days at 1.1 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 363 K (90 °C): too cold 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.

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