Home › Planets › K › Kepler-1172 b

Kepler-1172 b

Kepler-1172 b is a hot large super-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star 4,261 ly away. A year there lasts 26 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.

▶ Land on Kepler-1172 bFree · plays in your browser
EarthKepler-1172 b
Gravity9.87 m/s²1.01× Earth estimated
Size3.2× Earthradius measured
Mass10.3× Earthestimated
Temperature≈ 402 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance4,261 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star5,558 Ka Sun-like star
One year26 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2016transit

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of Kepler-1172 b. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on dry, dusty desert rock.

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.

Play Kepler-1172 b

Similar worlds nearby

Kepler-1496 b4,265 light-yearsKepler-1192 b4,254 light-yearsKepler-1738 b4,249 light-yearsKepler-175 b4,280 light-yearsKepler-175 c4,280 light-yearsKepler-1177 b4,240 light-years

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.