Imagined view associated with Proxima Cen d
Field guide / Rocky-size candidate

Proxima Cen d

A real world. 2 imagined possibilities.

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Artist’s imagined environment
Host starProxima Cen
One orbit5.12 days
Planet radius0.692 Earth radii
Distance from us4.24 light-years

Catalog central values; reported uncertainties, limits and sources are in the science record below.

A place in the universe

Under these skies,
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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.

Earlier explorations02 imagined views

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The evidence record

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.

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 radius0.692Earth radiiCalculated Value
Planet mass0.26 [+0.038 / -0.038]Earth massesSuárez Mascareño et al. 2025
Bulk density4.31g/cm³Calculated Value
Orbital period5.1234 [+0.00035 / -0.00035]daysSuárez Mascareño et al. 2025
Orbital semimajor axis0.02881 [+0.00017 / -0.00017]AUSuárez Mascareño et al. 2025
Orbital eccentricity0Suárez Mascareño et al. 2025
Orbital inclinationUnknowndegreesSource not supplied
Irradiation1.814 [+0.098 / -0.098]Earth fluxSuárez Mascareño et al. 2025
Equilibrium temperature282 [+23 / -23]K; not surface temperatureSuárez Mascareño et al. 2025
Catalog stellar effective temperature2,900 [+100 / -100]KSuárez Mascareño et al. 2025
Catalog stellar radius0.141 [+0.021 / -0.021]Solar radiiSuárez Mascareño et al. 2025
Catalog stellar mass0.1221 [+0.0022 / -0.0022]Solar massesSuárez Mascareño et al. 2025
Catalog stellar luminosity-2.821 [+0.02242 / -0.02364]log10 Solar luminositySuárez Mascareño et al. 2025
Catalog stellar ageUnknownGyrSource not supplied
Catalog stellar metallicityUnknowndexSource not supplied
System distance1.3012 [+0.00034 / -0.00035]pcTICv8

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