Exoplanet · gas giant
HAT-P-66 b
HAT-P-66 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HAT-P-66. Its year lasts 2.97 Earth days. It was discovered in 2016 by the Transit method.
| Host star | HAT-P-66 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 3,051 light-years (935.5 pc) |
| Orbital period | 2.97 days |
| Orbital radius | 0.0436 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.090 |
| Radius | 17.8 R⊕ · 1.59 R♃ |
| Mass | 249 M⊕ · 0.783 M♃ |
| Density | 0.242 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 0.783 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 1,896 K (1,623 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 1,940 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2016 |
| Discovered by | HATNet |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 1,940 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 23° across: 43 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 13.01. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 36° S. North of latitude 36° N 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 around 1026 BC. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 54 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.