Real exoplanet setting

The last shift

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The last shift
Alien AI · Who owns the dawn?Artist’s imagined scene

Displaced workers gather with their tools outside an automated factory. The production line continues behind the gates. A ringed parent planet and two suns dominate the horizon of an invented moon. The scene imagines a society that retained its productive capacity while excluding its former workers from the benefits.

01 / Interpretation

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.

02 / Evidence

The scientific anchor

Kepler-34 b is a catalogued planet orbiting two stars, with orbital period 288.822 days and radius 8.564 Earth radii. The real planet is gas-rich. The depicted solid ground is on a hypothetical satellite, not a known planetary surface. The moons, rings, living species, robots and social history are fictional. These scenes are possibilities in a story, not observations or inevitable predictions about AI.

Available measurements

Host: Kepler-34 · 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.

QuantityValue & uncertaintyUnitPaper / source
Planet radius8.564 [+0.135 / -0.157]Earth radiiWelsh et al. 2012
Planet mass69.92 [+3.496 / -3.178]Earth massesWelsh et al. 2012
Bulk density0.613 [+0.045 / -0.041]g/cm³Welsh et al. 2012
Orbital period288.82 [+0.063 / -0.081]daysWelsh et al. 2012
Orbital semimajor axis1.0896 [+0.0009 / -0.0009]AUWelsh et al. 2012
Orbital eccentricity0.182 [+0.016 / -0.02]Welsh et al. 2012
Orbital inclination90.355 [+0.026 / -0.018]degreesWelsh et al. 2012
Irradiation1.2545 [+0.1098 / -0.1098]Earth fluxCalculated Value
Equilibrium temperature294.42 [+6.48 / -6.48]K; not surface temperatureCalculated Value
Catalog stellar effective temperature5,913 [+130 / -130]KWelsh et al. 2012
Catalog stellar radius1.1618 [+0.0027 / -0.0031]Solar radiiWelsh et al. 2012
Catalog stellar mass1.0479 [+0.0033 / -0.003]Solar massesWelsh et al. 2012
Catalog stellar luminosity0.173 [+0.036 / -0.04]log10 Solar luminosityWelsh et al. 2012
Catalog stellar ageUnknownGyrSource not supplied
Catalog stellar metallicity-0.07 [+0.15 / -0.15]dexWelsh et al. 2012
System distance1,800.8 [+87.53 / -79.9]pcTICv8

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.

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Papers and references