Artist impression. No real image of Ross 128 b exists yet.
exoplanet · 11 light years from Earth
Ross 128 b
A temperate Earth-mass world around one of the quietest red dwarfs in the neighbourhood.
- Type
- Exoplanet
- Orbits
- Ross 128
- Distance
- 11 light years
- Diameter
- about 14,000 km (estimated)
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Discovered
- 2017
- Rotation
- Tidally locked: one side always faces its star
About Ross 128 b
- Found in 2017 with the HARPS spectrograph in Chile.
- Its red dwarf is unusually calm, with few of the flares that strip other planets.
- Ross 128 is moving toward us and will be the Sun's closest stellar neighbour in about 79,000 years.
Visit Ross 128 b in VR
In IKAREE, Ross 128 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 Ross 128 b. Warp seven. Engage.
- Brooks · HelmCourse laid in for Ross 128 b. Warp seven. Engaging.
- CaptainScience, full analysis of Ross 128 b.
- Hart · ScienceRunning it now, Captain.
