K2-141 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting K2-141.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 1.5 times Earth's width.
- Mass
- About 5 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About 1,830 °C (3,326 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 3,260 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 6.7 hours.
Planet
- Radius
- 1.51 × Earth
- Mass
- 4.97 × Earth
- Density
- 7.93 g/cm³
- Equilibrium temperature
- 2,103 K
- Starlight received
- 3,260 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 0.2803 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.00747 AU
Star
- Host star
- K2-141
- Spectral class
- K — orange dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 4,570 K
- Radius
- 0.681 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.708 × Sun
- Age
- 6.3 billion years
System
- Distance from Earth
- 201.8 light-years (61.87 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 2
Discovery
- Year
- 2018
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- K2
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.