A civilization of spare parts
New bodies wait in the light of two stars. Individuality may be another replaceable part.
The imagined scene
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.
The scientific anchor
Kepler-35 b is a confirmed circumbinary planet in the NASA catalog: it orbits two stars in about 131.458 days and has radius 8.16 Earth radii. The planet is gas-rich. The viewpoint is an invented orbital habitat, not a habitable planetary surface. No depicted moon, artificial intelligence, civilization or disappearance of organic life is an observed discovery.
Available measurements
Host: Kepler-35 · 2 catalog star(s) · Giant-size planet
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 | 8.16 [+0.157 / -0.157] | Earth radii | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Planet mass | 40.363 [+6.356 / -6.356] | Earth masses | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Bulk density | 0.41 [+0.07 / -0.069] | g/cm³ | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Orbital period | 131.46 [+0.077 / -0.105] | days | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Orbital semimajor axis | 0.60347 [+0.00101 / -0.00103] | AU | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.042 [+0.007 / -0.004] | Welsh et al. 2012 | |
| Orbital inclination | 90.76 [+0.12 / -0.09] | degrees | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Irradiation | 2.5804 [+0.2764 / -0.2764] | Earth flux | Calculated Value |
| Equilibrium temperature | 352.89 [+9.45 / -9.45] | K; not surface temperature | Calculated Value |
| Catalog stellar effective temperature | 5,606 [+150 / -150] | K | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Catalog stellar radius | 1.0284 [+0.002 / -0.0019] | Solar radii | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Catalog stellar mass | 0.8877 [+0.0051 / -0.0053] | Solar masses | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Catalog stellar luminosity | -0.027 [+0.044 / -0.049] | log10 Solar luminosity | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Catalog stellar age | Unknown | Gyr | Source not supplied |
| Catalog stellar metallicity | -0.34 [+0.2 / -0.2] | dex | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| System distance | 1,819.2 [+120.96 / -107.03] | pc | TICv8 |
What about life?
Likely a deep gaseous envelope, without a solid exterior surface. Atmospheric or moon life is speculative; this is not proof that all life is impossible. No confirmed life; no planet-specific biosignature literature review in this release.