Real exoplanet setting

The flood remembers no borders

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The flood remembers no borders
Alien AI · Who owns the dawn?Artist’s imagined scene

A rescue machine carries a child and assists an adult through a flooded settlement. Residents displaced from different districts wait together beyond a broken floodwall. The giant planet and smaller imagined satellites illuminate the clearing night sky. The ocean, weather, moon and rescue technology are fictional.

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-1647 b is a catalogued planet orbiting two stars, with orbital period 1107.59 days and radius 11.8739 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-1647 · 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 radius11.874 [+0.1377 / -0.1377]Earth radiiKostov et al. 2016
Planet mass483 [+206 / -206]Earth massesKostov et al. 2016
Bulk density1.59g/cm³Calculated Value
Orbital period1,107.6 [+0.0227 / -0.0227]daysKostov et al. 2016
Orbital semimajor axis2.7205 [+0.007 / -0.007]AUKostov et al. 2016
Orbital eccentricity0.0581 [+0.0689 / -0.0689]Kostov et al. 2016
Orbital inclination90.097 [+0.0035 / -0.0035]degreesKostov et al. 2016
Irradiation0.5956 [+0.0339 / -0.0339]Earth fluxCalculated Value
Equilibrium temperature242.92 [+3.94 / -3.94]K; not surface temperatureCalculated Value
Catalog stellar effective temperature6,210 [+100 / -100]KKostov et al. 2016
Catalog stellar radius1.7903 [+0.0055 / -0.0055]Solar radiiKostov et al. 2016
Catalog stellar mass1.2207 [+0.0112 / -0.0112]Solar massesKostov et al. 2016
Catalog stellar luminosity0.64425 [+0.0239 / -0.02529]log10 Solar luminosityGaia DR2
Catalog stellar age4.4 [+0.25 / -0.25]GyrKostov et al. 2016
Catalog stellar metallicity-0.14 [+0.05 / -0.05]dexKostov et al. 2016
System distance1,212.5 [+22.335 / -22.335]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