Kepler-1997 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting Kepler-1997.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 2.3 times Earth's width.
- Temperature
- About 387 °C (728 °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 27 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- 2.28 × Earth
- Mass
- Unknown
- Density
- Unknown
- Equilibrium temperature
- 660 K
- Starlight received
- 44.86 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 26.76 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.1815 AU
Star
- Host star
- Kepler-1997
- Spectral class
- F — yellow-white
- Surface temperature
- 6,215 K
- Radius
- 1.052 × Sun
- Mass
- 1.111 × Sun
- Age
- Unknown
System
- Distance from Earth
- 4,900 light-years (1,502 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.