SpazeRocky planet, 6 light years away, Barnard’s Star
Barnard b
A small, hot rocky planet around the second-nearest star system to the Sun.
- Distance
- 6 light years
- Year
- 3.2 days
- Size
- 0.7 × Earth
- Temperature
- 165 °C
- Mass
- 0.3 × Earth
- Found
- 2024, Paranal Observatory
Can we live on Barnard b?
Air: CO₂, N₂. Not breathable: you’d need a suit and your own oxygen.
Gravity: 0.58 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 40 kg there.
Temperature: 165 °C on average.
Ground: Rock; atmosphere unknown.
Atmosphere
- CO₂
- N₂
Not measured yet: modelled from its size and temperature