A year on Kepler-20e only lasts 6 days, as it is much closer to its host star than the Earth is to the Sun.

The temperature at the surface of the planet, around 1400 degrees Fahrenheit, is much too hot to support life, as we know it.

Astronomers think that the planet is likely to be geologically active, due to its own formation process and the strong gravitational interactions with its host star.

In this artistic depiction, the planet is represented with active volcanoes on both the night and day sides.

[1] With a semimajor axis of 0.0507 AUs, Kepler-20e's orbit has a period of 6.098 days (with an extremely small margin of error).