Exoplanet · gas giant
CoRoT-16 b
CoRoT-16 b is a gas giant orbiting the star CoRoT-16. Its year lasts 5.35 Earth days. It was discovered in 2011 by the Transit method.
| Host star | CoRoT-16 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 2,389 light-years (732.4 pc) |
| Orbital period | 5.35 days |
| Orbital radius | 0.0618 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.330 |
| Radius | 13.1 R⊕ · 1.17 R♃ |
| Mass | 170 M⊕ · 0.535 M♃ |
| Density | 0.44 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 0.989 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 1,196 K (922 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 96.2 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2011 |
| Discovered by | CoRoT |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 96.2 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 10° across: 19 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 16.05. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 84° N. It stands highest at midnight in June, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around 364 BC. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 42 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.