K2-16 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting K2-16.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 2 times Earth's width.
- Temperature
- About 385 °C (725 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 45 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 7.6 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- 2.02 × Earth
- Mass
- Unknown
- Density
- Unknown
- Equilibrium temperature
- 658 K
- Starlight received
- 44.5 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 7.619 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.0667 AU
Star
- Host star
- K2-16
- Spectral class
- K — orange dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 4,742 K
- Radius
- 0.66 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.68 × Sun
- Age
- Unknown
System
- Distance from Earth
- 1,093 light-years (335 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 3
Discovery
- Year
- 2015
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- K2
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.