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HATS-71 b

HATS-71 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HATS-71. Its year lasts 3.8 Earth days. It was discovered in 2020 by the Transit method.

Host starHATS-71
Distance457.4 light-years (140.2 pc)
Orbital period3.8 days
Orbital radius0.0375 AU
Eccentricity0.000
Radius11.5 R⊕ · 1.02 R♃
Mass118 M⊕ · 0.37 M♃
Density0.42 g/cm³
Surface gravity0.893 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature587 K (314 °C)
Stellar flux received18.1 × Earth
Discovery methodTransit
Discovery year2020
Discovered byHATSouth

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 18.1 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 6.8° across: 13 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 16.44. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 28° N. South of latitude 28° S it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in October, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1569. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 8.1 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.