Kepler-438b - Wikipedia
WEBKepler-438b is an Earth-sized planet, an exoplanet that has a mass and radius close to that of Earth. It has a radius of 1.12 R🜨, and an unknown mass. It has an equilibrium temperature of 276 K (3 °C; 37 °F), close to that of Earth.
Kepler-438 b - Science@NASA
WEBKepler-438 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits an M-type star. Its mass is 1.46 Earths, it takes 35.2 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.166 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2015.
Stripped: The untold story of the almost-Earth
WEBNov 17, 2015 · The most Earth-like planet could have been made uninhabitable by vast quantities of radiation, new research led by the University of Warwick has found. The atmosphere of the planet, Kepler-438b, is thought to have been stripped away as a result of radiation emitted from a superflaring red dwarf star, Kepler-438.
Kepler-438b: Astronomers Find Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Yet
WEBJan 8, 2015 · According to the astronomers, Kepler-438b is 12 percent bigger than Earth and orbits its parent star, Kepler-438, once every 35.2 days. The star, also known as KOI-3284, is a red dwarf located in the direction of the …
Most Earthlike exoplanet is uninhabitable | Science Wire | EarthSky
WEBNov 18, 2015 · The planet Kepler-438b, 470 light years from Earth, is to date the exoplanet with the highest recorded Earth Similarity Index, a measure of how physically similar a planet is to Earth. But...
Kepler-438 - Wikipedia
WEBKepler-438 is a red dwarf in the constellation Lyra, about 590 light years from Earth. [1] It is notable for its planetary system, which includes Kepler-438b, a possibly Earth-size planet within Kepler-438's habitable zone.
NASA's Kepler Marks 1,000th Exoplanet Discovery, Uncovers …
WEBJan 6, 2015 · Kepler-442b, 1,100 light-years away, is 33 percent bigger than Earth and orbits its star once every 112 days. Both Kepler-438b and Kepler-442b orbit stars smaller and cooler than our sun, making the habitable zone closer to their parent star, in the direction of the constellation Lyra.
Astronomers Discover The Two Most Earth-Like Planets to Date
WEBJan 7, 2015 · Kepler-438b is slightly larger than Earth, with a diameter about 12 percent larger than our planet's, and it orbits its red draft star every 35 days. The team says there's about a 70 percent chance that it's rocky.
Superflares might make “most Earth-like exoplanet” uninhabitable
WEBNov 18, 2015 · The planet Kepler-438b, to date the exoplanet with the highest recorded Earth Similarity Index, is both similar in size and temperature to the Earth but is in closer proximity to the red...
Alien earth 'could support life', but what is Kepler 438b like?
WEBJan 7, 2015 · The German-designed Helios probes, notable for having set the current speed record among spacecraft at 252,792 km/h, would take 2,029,278 years to travel to Kepler 438b.
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