About this world
TOI-2076 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting TOI-2076, an orange dwarf (type KV) 137 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.6 times the size of Earth and holds 6.7 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 10.4 days at 0.088 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 736 K (463 °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 2021 by transit with Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. TOI-2076 has 4 known planets; the others are TOI-2076 e, TOI-2076 c and TOI-2076 d.