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K2-278 b

K2-278 b is a scorching large super-Earth orbiting a bright white-yellow star 2,565 ly away. A year there lasts 3.3 days. It was found using the transit method: it dims its star as it passes in front. 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 mass is estimated from its size.

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EarthK2-278 b
Gravity10.13 m/s²1.03× Earth estimated
Size2.98× Earthradius measured
Mass9.17× Earthestimated
Temperature≈ 1,438 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance2,565 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star6,747 Ka hot white-yellow star
One year3.3 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2018transit

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of K2-278 b. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on glowing iron-rich lava fields.

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.