Exoplanet · gas giant
bet Pic b
bet Pic b is a gas giant orbiting the star β Pic. Its year lasts 8,680 Earth days. It was discovered in 2008 by the Imaging method.
| Host star | β Pic |
|---|---|
| Distance | 64.4 light-years (19.7 pc) |
| Orbital period | 23.8 years |
| Orbital radius | 10.1 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.105 |
| Radius | 18.5 R⊕ · 1.65 R♃ |
| Mass | 2,770 M⊕ · 8.7 M♃ |
| Density | 2.4 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 8.08 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 1,612 K (1,339 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 0.0885 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Imaging |
| Discovery year | 2008 |
| Discovered by | Paranal Observatory |
Habitable zone
Beyond the habitable zone: it receives only %8.9 of the light the Earth does, a frozen world.
Its star in the sky
In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.082° across: 0.15 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
Visible to the naked eye under a dark sky (apparent magnitude 3.85). Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 39° N. South of latitude 39° S it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in December, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around the year 1962. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 1.1 million years.
Planets in the same system
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.