Exoplanet · gas giant
HATS-70 b
HATS-70 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HATS-70. Its year lasts 1.89 Earth days. It was discovered in 2019 by the Transit method.
| Host star | HATS-70 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 4,758 light-years (1,459 pc) |
| Orbital period | 45.3 hours |
| Orbital radius | 0.0363 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.180 |
| Radius | 15.5 R⊕ · 1.38 R♃ |
| Mass | 4,100 M⊕ · 12.9 M♃ |
| Density | 6.64 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 17 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 2,730 K (2,457 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 9,110 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2019 |
| Discovered by | HATSouth |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 9,110 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 27° across: 51 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 12.20. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 59° N. South of latitude 59° S it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in January, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out 4,758 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 84 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.