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Kepler-26 e

Kepler-26 e is a temperate water-rich world orbiting an orange star 1,094 ly away. A year there lasts 46.8 days. It was found using the transit method: it dims its star as it passes in front. Its temperature could allow liquid water, which makes it a habitable-zone candidate, not a confirmed habitable world. 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. It sits where a planet could be warm enough for liquid water, in the so-called habitable zone.

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EarthKepler-26 e
Gravity10.79 m/s²1.1× Earth estimated
Size2.41× Earthradius measured
Mass6.39× Earthestimated
Temperature≈ 3 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance1,094 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star4,486 Kan orange dwarf
One year46.8 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2014transit

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of Kepler-26 e. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on a deep ocean under a hydrogen sky.

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 b0.66× EarthKepler-26 c0.84× EarthKepler-26 d1.08× 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.