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HATS-36 b

HATS-36 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HATS-36. Its year lasts 4.18 Earth days. It was discovered in 2018 by the Transit method.

Host starHATS-36
Distance2,793 light-years (856.4 pc)
Orbital period4.18 days
Orbital radius0.0523 AU
Eccentricity0.105
Radius12.9 R⊕ · 1.15 R♃
Mass1,020 M⊕ · 3.22 M♃
Density2.12 g/cm³
Surface gravity6.12 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature1,203 K (930 °C)
Stellar flux received561 × Earth
Discovery methodTransit
Discovery year2018
Discovered byHATSouth

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 561 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 11° across: 21 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 14.36. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 67° N. South of latitude 67° S it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in July, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around 768 BC. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 50 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.