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Transit · 2016

Kepler-992 b

This world receives 15.3× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 20.2 days; the light you see left it 847 years ago.

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Size
1.6 × Earth 
A year
20.2 days0.134 AU
Temperature
237 °C510 K

About this world

Kepler-992 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-992, an orange dwarf 847 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.6 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 20.2 days at 0.13 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 510 K (237 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", its star has probably stripped its atmosphere away, leaving bare rock.

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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