About this world
TOI-1246 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting TOI-1246, an orange dwarf (type KV) 553 light-years from Earth. It is about 3 times the size of Earth and holds 8.1 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 4.31 days at 0.049 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 955 K (682 °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 2022 by transit with Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. TOI-1246 has 4 known planets; the others are TOI-1246 c, TOI-1246 d and TOI-1246 e.