Q: How deep is that dip in brightness? In other words, what fraction of the star's disk was covered? The star's brightness decreases from 1.0 units of flux to about 0.985 units of flux. That means that 0.015 of the star's light was blocked or 1.5 percent of the star's light was blocked Q: If that star is like our Sun, how large is the planet? (area of planet) ---------------- = 0.015 (area of star) pi * (planet radius)^2 ------------------------ = 0.015 pi * (star radius)^2 planet_radius = sqrt(0.015) * star_radius Now, if the star is identical to our Sun, it has a radius of 6.96 x 10^(8) meters. In that case, planet_radius = 0.122 * 6.96 x 10^(8) meters = 8.5 x 10^(7) m = 85,000 km which is larger than Jupiter.