About this world
GJ 676 A d is a super-Earth orbiting GJ 676 A, a cool red dwarf (type M0) 52.3 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.8 times the size of Earth (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 3.8 Earth masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 3.6 days at 0.039 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 757 K (484 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", its star has probably stripped its atmosphere away, leaving bare rock.
It was discovered in 2012 by radial velocity with La Silla Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum. GJ 676 A has 4 known planets; the others are GJ 676 A e, GJ 676 A b and GJ 676 A c.