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Transit · 2015 · habitable zone

KIC 10525077 b

This world receives 2.32× less starlight than Earth; a year lasts 2.34 years; the light you see left it 4.77 thousand years ago.

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Size
5.5 × Earth 
A year
2.34 years1.77 AU
Temperature
−47 °C226 K

About this world

KIC 10525077 b is a Neptune-like planet orbiting KIC 10525077, a yellow-white F-type star 4.77 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 5.5 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 2.34 years at 1.8 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 226 K (−47 °C), which places it in the conservative habitable zone: the band where liquid water could exist on a rocky surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2015 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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