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Transit · 2016

Kepler-924 b

This world receives 20× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 61 days; the light you see left it 3.43 thousand years ago.

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Size
3.1 × Earth 
A year
61 days0.313 AU
Temperature
337 °C610 K

About this world

Kepler-924 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-924, a yellow-white F-type star 3.43 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 3.1 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 61 days at 0.31 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 610 K (337 °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.

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