Exoplanet · gas giant
CI Tau c
CI Tau c is a gas giant orbiting the star CI Tau. Its year lasts 25.2 Earth days. It was discovered in 2024 by the Radial Velocity method.
| Host star | CI Tau |
|---|---|
| Distance | 515.3 light-years (158.0 pc) |
| Orbital period | 25.2 days |
| Orbital radius | 0.17 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.580 |
| Radius | 13 R⊕ · 1.16 R♃ |
| Mass (minimum) | 1,140 M⊕ · 3.6 M♃ |
| Density | 2.86 g/cm³ |
| Equilibrium temperature | 611 K (337 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 19.3 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Radial Velocity |
| Discovery year | 2024 |
| Discovered by | Multiple Observatories |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 19.3 times the light the Earth does, too hot to keep liquid water on its surface.
Its star in the sky
In the planet's sky its star is a disc 5.9° across: 11 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 13.64. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 67° S. North of latitude 67° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in November, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around the year 1511. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 9.1 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.