About this world
TOI-451 b is a super-Earth orbiting TOI-451, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G8V) 404 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.8 times the size of Earth and holds 4.7 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 1.86 days at 0.027 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,474 K (1,201 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", its star has probably stripped its atmosphere away, leaving bare rock.
It was discovered in 2020 by transit with Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. TOI-451 has 3 known planets; the others are TOI-451 c and TOI-451 d.