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Transit · 2013

KOI-94 e

This world receives 29.7× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 54.3 days; the light you see left it 1.56 thousand years ago.

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Size
0.59 × Jupiter 
A year
54.3 days0.305 AU
Temperature
311 °C584 K

About this world

KOI-94 e is a Neptune-like planet orbiting KOI-94, a yellow-white F-type star 1.56 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 0.59 times the size of Jupiter and holds 0.11 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 54.3 days at 0.3 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 584 K (311 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium. Its atmosphere has already been studied: 2 spectroscopic observations, all of them with the James Webb Space Telescope.

It was discovered in 2013 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. KOI-94 has 4 known planets; the others are KOI-94 b, KOI-94 c and KOI-94 d.

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