Exoplanet · super-Earth
CoRoT-7 b
CoRoT-7 b is a super-Earth orbiting the star CoRoT-7. Its year lasts 0.854 Earth days. It was discovered in 2009 by the Transit method.
| Host star | CoRoT-7 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 521.5 light-years (159.9 pc) |
| Orbital period | 20.5 hours |
| Orbital radius | 0.017 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.000 |
| Radius | 1.68 R⊕ · 0.15 R♃ |
| Mass | 4.08 M⊕ · 0.0128 M♃ |
| Density | 9.36 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 1.44 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 1,756 K (1,483 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 1,770 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2009 |
| Discovered by | CoRoT |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 1,770 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 27° across: 50 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 11.85. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 89° N. 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 1504. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 9.3 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.