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Transit · 2016

Kepler-942 b

This world receives 4.96× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 45 days; the light you see left it 706 years ago.

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Size
2.1 × Earth 
A year
45 days0.227 AU
Temperature
106 °C379 K

About this world

Kepler-942 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-942, an orange dwarf 706 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.1 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 45 days at 0.23 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 379 K (106 °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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