Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
Kepler-243 c
A confirmed world orbiting Kepler-243, 2,263.1 light-years away.
A super-Earth
1.99 Earth radii. Worlds between Earth and Neptune in size are the most common in the galaxy, yet our Solar System has none, which is why each one matters.
The orbit
Its year, one full orbit, takes just 20.0 Earth days.
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 286 °C. Above water's boiling point. It receives 21.7 times the starlight Earth gets.
Its sun
Its star is an orange K-type (5,228 K): cooler and longer-lived than the Sun, a class some astronomers consider ideal for habitability. It shares the system with 1 other known planet.
How far is that, really?
At 2,263 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year -237. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 40,039,551 years to get there.
How we found it
It was found by the transit method: the planet crosses its star's face on schedule, dimming it by a tiny, repeating fraction. The dip's depth gives the planet's size. The discovery was announced in 2014 from Kepler.
Everything above is computed from the archive’s measured values for this planet. Where a quantity is missing, the statement is omitted rather than guessed.
About this record
The measured values come from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, and any missing value has not been determined yet; the Atlas never fills gaps with guesses. More standout worlds: Proxima b, TRAPPIST-1e, K2-18 b, 55 Cancri e, and the detection methods that found them all.