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Exoplanet · gas giant

2MASS J22362452+4751425 b

2MASS J22362452+4751425 b is a gas giant orbiting the star 2MASS J22362452+4751425. It was discovered in 2016 by the Imaging method.

Host star2MASS J22362452+4751425
Distance226.9 light-years (69.6 pc)
Orbital radius230 AU
Radius12.3 R⊕ · 1.1 R♃
Mass3,970 M⊕ · 12.5 M♃
Density11.7 g/cm³
Surface gravity26.3 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature10 K (-263 °C)
Stellar flux received0 × Earth
Discovery methodImaging
Discovery year2016
Discovered byW. M. Keck Observatory

Habitable zone

Beyond the habitable zone: it receives only %0 of the light the Earth does, a frozen world.

Its star in the sky

In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.0015° across: 0.0028 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 12.50. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 42° S. North of latitude 42° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in August, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1799. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 4.0 million years.

Open in the simulation

Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.