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HD 1461 b

HD 1461 b is a scorching large super-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star 76.5 ly away. A year there lasts 5.8 days. It was found using the radial velocity method: it makes its star wobble. Planets this size may be wrapped in thick gas; the game imagines it as a solid or water world you can walk on. Note: its size is estimated from its mass, only a minimum mass is known.

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EarthHD 1461 b
Gravity10.79 m/s²1.1× Earth estimated
Size2.42× Earthradius estimated
Mass6.44× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ 912 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance76.5 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star5,765 Ka Sun-like star
One year5.8 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2010radial velocity

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of HD 1461 b. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on a molten surface of lava seas.

Pack the right suit. Choose 3 of 6 modules (cooling, heating, pressure hull, extra oxygen, radiation shield, jetpack), complete 3 surveys and get back to the lander before your oxygen runs out.

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Other planets around HD 1461

HD 1461 c1.12× Earth

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Sizes, masses, temperatures and orbits come from the NASA Exoplanet Archive (Planetary Systems Composite table). Values marked estimated are calculated from the other measurements; the surface and air are imagined for the game.