About this world
TOI-500 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting TOI-500, an orange dwarf (type K6V) 155 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.1 times the size of Earth (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 5 Earth masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 6.64 days at 0.063 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 745 K (472 °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 2022 by radial velocity with La Silla Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum. TOI-500 has 4 known planets; the others are TOI-500 b, TOI-500 d and TOI-500 e.