Real exoplanet setting

The clinic that stayed open

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The clinic that stayed open
Alien AI · Who owns the dawn?Artist’s imagined scene

Medical robots treat residents of a neglected settlement in an open-sided clinic. A worker receives a mobility brace and a child receives a checkup beneath the giant parent planet and imagined moons. The scene asks what access to useful automation could look like when care continues after employment ends.

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-16 b is a catalogued planet orbiting two stars, with orbital period 228.776 days and radius 8.4493 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-16 · 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 radius8.4493 [+0.0291 / -0.0291]Earth radiiDoyle et al. 2011
Planet mass105.83 [+5.085 / -5.085]Earth massesDoyle et al. 2011
Bulk density0.964 [+0.047 / -0.046]g/cm³Doyle et al. 2011
Orbital period228.78 [+0.02 / -0.037]daysDoyle et al. 2011
Orbital semimajor axis0.7048 [+0.0011 / -0.0011]AUDoyle et al. 2011
Orbital eccentricity0.0069 [+0.001 / -0.0015]Doyle et al. 2011
Orbital inclination90.032 [+0.0022 / -0.0023]degreesDoyle et al. 2011
Irradiation0.2517 [+0.0012 / -0.0012]Earth fluxCalculated Value
Equilibrium temperature205.9 [+6.95 / -6.95]K; not surface temperatureCalculated Value
Catalog stellar effective temperature4,450 [+150 / -150]KDoyle et al. 2011
Catalog stellar radius0.6489 [+0.0013 / -0.0013]Solar radiiDoyle et al. 2011
Catalog stellar mass0.6897 [+0.0035 / -0.0034]Solar massesDoyle et al. 2011
Catalog stellar luminosity-0.90301 [+0.00147 / -0.00148]log10 Solar luminosityGaia DR2
Catalog stellar age3.8 [+3.7 / -3.7]GyrQ1-Q8 KOI Table
Catalog stellar metallicity-0.3 [+0.2 / -0.2]dexDoyle et al. 2011
System distance75.085 [+0.1541 / -0.1536]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