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HD 150010 b

HD 150010 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 150010. Its year lasts 562 Earth days. It was discovered in 2022 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starHD 150010
Distance471.3 light-years (144.5 pc)
Orbital period562 days
Orbital radius1.4 AU
Eccentricity0.200
Radius13.3 R⊕ · 1.19 R♃
Mass (minimum)763 M⊕ · 2.4 M♃
Density1.78 g/cm³
Equilibrium temperature681 K (408 °C)
Stellar flux received49 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2022
Discovered byBohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 49 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 6.2° across: 12 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

Visible to the naked eye under a dark sky (apparent magnitude 6.27). Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 17° S. North of latitude 17° N 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 1555. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 8.4 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.