Astronomical evidence
Kepler-35 b orbits Kepler-35. The saved catalog gives an orbital period of 131.458 (+0.077/−0.105) days. Its discovery method is recorded as transit. These quantities describe the real astronomical setting behind the illustration. Kepler-35 b is a transiting circumbinary planet. Stellar eclipses and planetary transits encode different parts of the system’s geometry. Modeling those events together allows a consistent interpretation of the moving bodies, while a single central-star diagram can only approximate the binary architecture. The catalog radius is 8.16 ± 0.157 Earth radii. The mass entry is 40.363 ± 6.356 Earth masses. The source papers and full table retain the provenance of each parameter.
The illustrated viewpoint
The depicted moon and its atmosphere are fictional. Two real host stars justify the theme of two-source lighting, but not the image’s exact stellar separation, disk sizes or shadows.
The depicted moon and its atmosphere are fictional. Two real host stars justify the theme of two-source lighting, but not the image’s exact stellar separation, disk sizes or shadows. All depicted life and technology are fictional.
Catalog measurements & sources
Host: Kepler-35. Snapshot: 25 September 2026. Errors, limits and source provenance are retained. Calculated values and model estimates are not direct measurements. Unknown is not zero; equilibrium temperature is not surface temperature.
| Quantity / unit | Value / reported errors | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Radius · Earth radii | 8.16 (+0.157 / -0.157) | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Mass · Earth masses | 40.363 (+6.356 / -6.356) | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Density · g/cm³ | 0.41 (+0.07 / -0.069) | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Orbital period · days | 131.458 (+0.077 / -0.105) | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Orbital semimajor axis · AU | 0.60347 (+0.00101 / -0.00103) | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Eccentricity | 0.042 (+0.007 / -0.004) | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Inclination · degrees | 90.76 (+0.12 / -0.09) | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Irradiation · Earth flux | 2.5804 (+0.2764 / -0.2764) | Calculated Value |
| Equilibrium temperature · K | 352.89 (+9.45 / -9.45) | Calculated Value |
| Stellar effective temperature · K | 5606 (+150 / -150) | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Stellar radius · Solar | 1.0284 (+0.002 / -0.0019) | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Stellar mass · Solar | 0.8877 (+0.0051 / -0.0053) | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Stellar luminosity · log Solar | -0.027 (+0.044 / -0.049) | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Stellar age · Gyr | Unknown | Not supplied |
| Stellar metallicity · dex | -0.34 (+0.2 / -0.2) | Welsh et al. 2012 |
| Distance · pc | 1819.17 (+120.96 / -107.03) | TICv8 |