Kepler-186f - Red Grass Panorama A brightened version with contrast

A brightened version with contrast and color enhanced and an unannotated version are also available

The orange filaments are the tattered remains of the star and consist mostly of hydrogen

green is singly-ionized sulfur

3 million kilometers) from Titan

Image Credit: ESO/J

Kepler-186f - Red Grass Panorama A brightened version with contrastKepler 186f is the first Earth size planet discovered in the potentially 'habitable zone' around another star, where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface. Its star is much cooler and redder than our Sun. If plant life does exist on a planet like Kepler 186f, its photosynthesis could have been influenced by the star's red wavelength photons, making for a color palette that's very different than the greens on Earth. This discovery was made