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HD 156668 b

HD 156668 b is a hot large super-Earth orbiting an orange star 79.4 ly away. A year there lasts 4.7 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 156668 b
Gravity11.64 m/s²1.19× Earth estimated
Size1.87× Earthradius estimated
Mass4.15× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ 614 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance79.4 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star4,850 Kan orange dwarf
One year4.7 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2010radial velocity

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of HD 156668 b. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on bare, cratered rock with no air.

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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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.