Exoplanet · gas giant
CoRoT-26 b
CoRoT-26 b is a gas giant orbiting the star CoRoT-26. Its year lasts 4.2 Earth days. It was discovered in 2013 by the Transit method.
| Host star | CoRoT-26 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 3,409 light-years (1,045 pc) |
| Orbital period | 4.2 days |
| Orbital radius | 0.0526 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.000 |
| Radius | 14.1 R⊕ · 1.26 R♃ |
| Mass | 165 M⊕ · 0.52 M♃ |
| Density | 0.28 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 0.829 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 1,600 K (1,327 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 1,020 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2013 |
| Discovered by | CoRoT |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 1,020 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 18° across: 34 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 15.86. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 83° S. It stands highest at midnight in June, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around 1384 BC. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 60 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.