SpazeLava world, 41 light years away, 55 Cnc
55 Cnc e
A super-Earth covered in a magma ocean, with a year that lasts 18 hours.
- Distance
- 41 light years
- Year
- 17.7 hours
- Size
- 1.9 × Earth
- Temperature
- 1,685 °C
- Mass
- 8 × Earth
- Found
- 2004, McDonald Observatory
Can we live on 55 Cnc e?
Air: CO, CO₂. Not breathable: you’d need a suit and your own oxygen.
Gravity: 2.27 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 159 kg there.
Temperature: 1,685 °C on average.
Ground: Magma ocean under a thin atmosphere.
Atmosphere
- CO
- CO₂
Measured by JWST