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Kepler-1680 b

Kepler-1680 b is a super-Earth orbiting the star Kepler-1680. Its year lasts 8.77 Earth days. It was discovered in 2020 by the Transit method.

Host starKepler-1680
Distance1,012 light-years (310.3 pc)
Orbital period8.77 days
Orbital radius0.0764 AU
Eccentricity0.000
Radius1.36 R⊕ · 0.121 R♃
Mass2.42 M⊕ · 0.00761 M♃ (estimated from the radius)
Density5.29 g/cm³
Equilibrium temperature771 K (498 °C)
Stellar flux received49 × Earth
Discovery methodTransit
Discovery year2020
Discovered byKepler

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 49 times the light the Earth does, too hot to keep liquid water on its surface.

Its star in the sky

In the planet's sky its star is a disc 5° across: 9.5 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 13.85. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 50° S. North of latitude 50° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in July, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1014. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 18 million years.

Open in the simulation

Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.