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Kepler-26 b

Kepler-26 b is a hot water-rich world orbiting an orange star 1,094 ly away. A year there lasts 12.3 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.

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EarthKepler-26 b
Gravity6.5 m/s²0.66× Earth measured
Size2.78× Earthradius measured
Mass5.12× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ 158 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance1,094 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star3,914 Kan orange dwarf
One year12.3 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2011transit

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of Kepler-26 b. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on hot, steamy shores of a water world.

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 Kepler-26

Kepler-26 c0.84× EarthKepler-26 d1.08× EarthKepler-26 e1.1× Earth

Similar worlds nearby

Kepler-1665 b1,094 light-yearsKepler-1544 b1,093 light-yearsKepler-61 b1,093 light-yearsK2-16 b1,092 light-yearsK2-16 c1,092 light-yearsKepler-134 b1,092 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.