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Exoplanet · gas giant

HD 156098 c

HD 156098 c is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 156098. Its year lasts 7,840 Earth days. It was discovered in 2022 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starHD 156098
Distance157.4 light-years (48.2 pc)
Orbital period21.5 years
Orbital radius8.42 AU
Eccentricity0.391
Radius12.8 R⊕ · 1.14 R♃
Mass1,660 M⊕ · 5.23 M♃
Density4.35 g/cm³
Surface gravity10.1 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature177 K (-96 °C)
Stellar flux received0.164 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2022
Discovered byMultiple Observatories

Habitable zone

Beyond the habitable zone: it receives only %16 of the light the Earth does, a frozen world.

Its star in the sky

In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.17° across: 0.33 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

Visible to the naked eye under a dark sky (apparent magnitude 5.53). Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 57° N. South of latitude 57° S it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in June, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1869. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 2.8 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.