Kepler-22 b
A real world. 2 imagined possibilities.
Watch this world orbit ↗Catalog central values; reported uncertainties, limits and sources are in the science record below.
Under these skies,
we imagined…
Explore this world through landscapes, life and stories. Each scene is connected to its intended planet and includes the science, the viewpoint and the details we invented.
Ancient Alien Worlds · When Stone Held the Stars01 imagined view
Alien Home Life · Where We Belong01 imagined view
The real world, in the literature
The host system is real. All alien organisms, robots, societies and social histories are fictional. Moons, rings, terrain and weather are artistic assumptions unless specifically supported by a cited source. These images are not calibrated simulations of the sky.
Borucki et al. 2012 · Bonomo et al. 2023 · Q1-Q17 DR25 Supplemental KOI Table · TICv8
NASA composite catalog values may combine different papers. Errors and upper/lower limits are retained. “Calculated Value” means derived or estimated. Msini is a minimum mass. Missing values are unknown. A multiple-star system’s single stellar row does not describe every component. Equilibrium temperature is not a measured surface temperature.
| Quantity | Value & uncertainty | Unit | Paper / source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planet radius | 2.1 [+0.12 / -0.12] | Earth radii | Bonomo et al. 2023 |
| Planet mass | ≤ 9.1 (upper limit) | Earth masses | Bonomo et al. 2023 |
| Bulk density | ≤ 5.2 (upper limit) | g/cm³ | Bonomo et al. 2023 |
| Orbital period | 289.86 [+1.3e-05 / -1.3e-05] | days | Bonomo et al. 2023 |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.812 [+0.011 / -0.013] | AU | Bonomo et al. 2023 |
| Orbital eccentricity | ≤ 0.72 (upper limit) | Bonomo et al. 2023 | |
| Orbital inclination | 89.764 [+0.025 / -0.042] | degrees | Bonomo et al. 2023 |
| Irradiation | 1.013 [+0.06 / -0.06] | Earth flux | Bonomo et al. 2023 |
| Equilibrium temperature | 279 [+4 / -4] | K; not surface temperature | Bonomo et al. 2023 |
| Catalog stellar effective temperature | 5,596 [+61 / -61] | K | Bonomo et al. 2023 |
| Catalog stellar radius | 0.869 [+0.011 / -0.011] | Solar radii | Bonomo et al. 2023 |
| Catalog stellar mass | 0.857 [+0.051 / -0.043] | Solar masses | Bonomo et al. 2023 |
| Catalog stellar luminosity | -0.19024 [+0.01013 / -0.01183] | log10 Solar luminosity | Q1-Q17 DR25 Supplemental KOI Table |
| Catalog stellar age | 7 [+4 / -4.2] | Gyr | Bonomo et al. 2023 |
| Catalog stellar metallicity | -0.255 [+0.065 / -0.065] | dex | Bonomo et al. 2023 |
| System distance | 194.64 [+0.927 / -0.918] | pc | TICv8 |