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HAT-P-25 b

HAT-P-25 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HAT-P-25. Its year lasts 3.65 Earth days. It was discovered in 2012 by the Transit method.

Host starHAT-P-25
Distance979.7 light-years (300.4 pc)
Orbital period3.65 days
Orbital radius0.0466 AU
Eccentricity0.023
Radius12.7 R⊕ · 1.14 R♃
Mass181 M⊕ · 0.569 M♃
Density0.483 g/cm³
Surface gravity1.12 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature1,182 K (909 °C)
Stellar flux received325 × Earth
Discovery methodTransit
Discovery year2012
Discovered byHATNet

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 325 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 10° across: 20 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 13.15. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 65° S. North of latitude 65° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in November, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1046. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 17 million years.

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.