Exoplanet · gas giant
Gaia22dkvL b
Gaia22dkvL b is a gas giant orbiting the star Gaia22dkvL. It was discovered in 2024 by the Microlensing method.
| Host star | Gaia22dkvL |
|---|---|
| Distance | 4,142 light-years (1,270 pc) |
| Orbital radius | 1.4 AU |
| Radius | 14.1 R⊕ · 1.26 R♃ |
| Mass | 188 M⊕ · 0.591 M♃ |
| Density | 0.368 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 0.945 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Microlensing |
| Discovery year | 2024 |
| Discovered by | European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia Satellite |
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 14.69. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 24° N. South of latitude 24° S it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in February, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out 4,142 years ago. At that time the first farming villages were being founded; there was no writing yet. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 73 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.