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GJ 433 c

GJ 433 c is a Neptune-like planet orbiting the star GJ 433. Its year lasts 5,090 Earth days. It was discovered in 2014 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starGJ 433
Distance29.6 light-years (9.06 pc)
Orbital period13.9 years
Orbital radius4.82 AU
Eccentricity0.120
Radius6.27 R⊕ · 0.559 R♃
Mass (minimum)32.4 M⊕ · 0.102 M♃
Density0.723 g/cm³
Equilibrium temperature54 K (-219 °C)
Stellar flux received9.00 × 10⁻⁴ × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2014
Discovered byMultiple Observatories

Habitable zone

Beyond the habitable zone: it receives only %0.09 of the light the Earth does, a frozen world.

Its star in the sky

In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.055° across: 0.1 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 9.81. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 57° N. South of latitude 57° S it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in March, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1996. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 524 thousand years.

Planets in the same system

Open in the simulation

Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.