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Transit · 2022

TOI-2048 b

This world receives 29× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 13.8 days; the light you see left it 380 years ago.

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Size
2.6 × Earth 
A year
13.8 days0.106 AU
Temperature
373 °C646 K

About this world

TOI-2048 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting TOI-2048, a yellow, Sun-like star (type GV) 380 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.6 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 13.8 days at 0.11 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 646 K (373 °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.

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