Kepler-1978 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting Kepler-1978.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 2.7 times Earth's width.
- Temperature
- About 403 °C (757 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 49 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 11 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- 2.67 × Earth
- Mass
- Unknown
- Density
- Unknown
- Equilibrium temperature
- 676 K
- Starlight received
- 49.3 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 10.85 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.0914 AU
Star
- Host star
- Kepler-1978
- Spectral class
- K — orange dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 5,251 K
- Radius
- 0.778 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.869 × Sun
- Age
- Unknown
System
- Distance from Earth
- 2,823 light-years (865.5 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 1
Discovery
- Year
- 2023
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- Kepler
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.