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HD 10180 d

HD 10180 d is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 10180. Its year lasts 16.4 Earth days. It was discovered in 2010 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starHD 10180
Distance127.1 light-years (39.0 pc)
Orbital period16.4 days
Orbital radius0.129 AU
Eccentricity0.131
Mass3,300 M⊕ · 10.4 M♃
Equilibrium temperature837 K (564 °C)
Stellar flux received90.1 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2010
Discovered byLa Silla Observatory

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 90.1 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 4.6° across: 8.6 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 7.33); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 29° N. South of latitude 29° 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 1899. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 2.3 million years.

Planets in the same system

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.