Kepler-1987 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting Kepler-1987.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 1.2 times Earth's width.
- Temperature
- About 724 °C (1,335 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 233 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 2.3 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- 1.23 × Earth
- Mass
- Unknown
- Density
- Unknown
- Equilibrium temperature
- 997 K
- Starlight received
- 233.4 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 2.346 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.0318 AU
Star
- Host star
- Kepler-1987
- Spectral class
- K — orange dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 4,769 K
- Radius
- 0.714 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.799 × Sun
- Age
- Unknown
System
- Distance from Earth
- 1,943 light-years (595.7 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 4
Discovery
- Year
- 2023
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- Kepler
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.