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PIA23004: K2-288Bb (Artist's Illustration)
This artist's illustration shows the newfound planet K2-288Bb is slightly smaller than Neptune.
 Mission:  Kepler 
Spitzer Space Telescope 
 Product Size:  6000 x 3375 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Goddard Space Flight Center 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23004.tif (33.47 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23004.jpg (1.192 MB)  

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The newfound planet K2-288Bb, illustrated here, is slightly smaller than Neptune. Located about 226 light-years away, it orbits the fainter member of a pair of cool M-type stars every 31.3 days.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech in Pasadena, California. Spacecraft operations are based at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Littleton, Colorado. Data are archived at the Infrared Science Archive housed at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

NASA Ames manages the Kepler and K2 missions for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. JPL managed Kepler mission development. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation operates the flight system with support from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

For more information about the Spitzer mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/spitzer and http://spitzer.caltech.edu.

For more information on the Kepler and the K2 mission, visit www.nasa.gov/Kepler.

Image Credit:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Francis Reddy

Image Addition Date:
2019-01-07