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Exoplanet · gas giant

HD 105618 c

HD 105618 c is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 105618. Its year lasts 77,100 Earth days. It was discovered in 2022 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starHD 105618
Distance228.6 light-years (70.1 pc)
Orbital period211 years
Orbital radius35.7 AU
Eccentricity0.126
Radius11.9 R⊕ · 1.06 R♃
Mass8,420 M⊕ · 26.5 M♃
Density27.5 g/cm³
Surface gravity59.5 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature52 K (-222 °C)
Stellar flux received0.0012 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2022
Discovered byMultiple Observatories

Habitable zone

Beyond the habitable zone: it receives only %0.12 of the light the Earth does, a frozen world.

Its star in the sky

In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.019° across: 0.036 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 8.63); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 79° S. North of latitude 79° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in March, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1797. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 4.1 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.