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SELECTED WORLDKepler-62 e
Kepler-62 · K2 V host star · orange star · main sequence
Star temperature and orbital distance set incoming energy, but stellar size is also required. This calculation uses a typical radius for the listed spectral type, 30% reflectivity and even heat redistribution. It is not a ground-temperature forecast: air, clouds, oceans and surface reflectivity could move the result by tens to hundreds of degrees.
The marker above the bar is a typical temperature for this star’s class. The line below is Earth’s Sun.
Kepler-62 is class K2 V. Its daylight would have a warmer orange-gold cast than sunlight on Earth.
Representative daytime geometry only; the star’s height in the sky changes through the day.
Most plausible case. A K2 star, 4925 K and 0.64 solar radii, so the light is orange-gold rather than red. From 0.43 AU the star spans about 0.8°. The planet receives about 1.35 times Earth’s light. Radius 1.61 Earth radii. The 122-day orbit is wide enough that a rising and setting star is the better bet. Warm rock if the surface is solid, little ice. The archive “mass” near 36 Earth masses is an upper limit, not a weight, so do not imagine 14 g.
Dry case. Warm orange daylight, oxidized rock, dunes, little ice. A super-Earth desert if the volatiles were lost.
Thick-air case. A 1.6-radius world often keeps a volatile envelope. Clouds are a likely view, and the ground may be under them or absent as a rock surface.
Walking. About twice Earth’s weight, roughly 2.2 g, and that is a model, not a measurement. Kepler-62 f is only about 0.05 of the Moon’s width, a star-like point, not a moon. The system is about 990 light-years away, magnitude 14.
Based on: Borucki et al. 2013; Teff 4925 K, R 0.64 Rsun, S 1.35, Rp 1.61, a 0.427 AU. Archive masses near 36 Earth masses are upper limits. Page gravity 2.23 g is a mass-radius model.
Kepler-62 e circles Kepler-62. Also shown: Kepler-62 b, Kepler-62 c, Kepler-62 d, Kepler-62 f, each on its NASA-catalogued orbit. Use Higher and Lower to move your viewpoint above, through and below the orbital plane, and − / + to zoom. Orbit shapes and spacing are schematic.
Positions, distances, and system parameters come from the NASA Exoplanet Archive composite table, queried 25 Sep 2026. GJ 273 b uses the parallax in that row, 12.4 light-years. The 45 worlds follow Bohl, Lawrence, Lowry, and Kaltenegger.
