Exoplanet · gas giant
Gaia-2 b
Gaia-2 b is a gas giant orbiting the star Gaia-2. Its year lasts 3.69 Earth days. It was discovered in 2022 by the Transit method.
| Host star | Gaia-2 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 682.4 light-years (209.2 pc) |
| Orbital period | 3.69 days |
| Orbital radius | 0.0467 AU |
| Radius | 14.8 R⊕ · 1.32 R♃ |
| Mass | 260 M⊕ · 0.817 M♃ |
| Density | 0.439 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 1.18 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 1,213 K (940 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 512 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2022 |
| Discovered by | European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia Satellite |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 512 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 12° across: 23 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 11.34. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 23° S. North of latitude 23° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in January, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around the year 1344. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 12 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.