Artist impression. No real image of Epsilon Eridani b exists yet.
exoplanet · 10.5 light years from Earth
Epsilon Eridani b
A cold Jupiter-like giant orbiting a young, dusty orange dwarf with its own debris belts.
- Type
- Exoplanet
- Orbits
- Epsilon Eridani
- Distance
- 10.5 light years
- Diameter
- about 140,000 km (estimated)
- Constellation
- Eridanus
- Discovered
- 2000
About Epsilon Eridani b
- Epsilon Eridani is one of the nearest Sun-like stars, visible to the naked eye.
- The star is young, under a billion years old, and still wrapped in dusty debris belts.
- The planet takes about seven years to go round it once.
In the world of IKAREE
In the game's fiction this system is home to the Vaelori, a founding species of the Planetary Union. Vael is their home world.
Visit Epsilon Eridani b in VR
In IKAREE, Epsilon Eridani b is one of 31 destinations modelled in detail. Sit in the captain's chair, give the order and watch it grow on the main viewscreen. Then send a survey probe and ride its camera down, or ask your science officer what the sensors show.
How to get there
- CaptainHelm, set a course for Epsilon Eridani b. Warp seven. Engage.
- Brooks · HelmCourse laid in for Epsilon Eridani b. Warp seven. Engaging.
- CaptainScience, full analysis of Epsilon Eridani b.
- Hart · ScienceRunning it now, Captain.
