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HD 143811 AB b

HD 143811 AB b is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 143811 A. Its year lasts 117,000 Earth days. It was discovered in 2025 by the Imaging method.

Host starHD 143811 A
Distance445.6 light-years (136.6 pc)
Orbital period320 years
Orbital radius63 AU
Eccentricity0.190
Radius15.7 R⊕ · 1.4 R♃
Mass1,940 M⊕ · 6.1 M♃
Density2.76 g/cm³
Surface gravity7.87 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature1,042 K (769 °C)
Stellar flux received0.0011 × Earth
Discovery methodImaging
Discovery year2025
Discovered byParanal Observatory

Habitable zone

Beyond the habitable zone: it receives only %0.11 of the light the Earth does, a frozen world.

Its star in the sky

In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.014° across: 0.027 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 8.91); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 60° N. South of latitude 60° S it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in May, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1580. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 7.9 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.