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Exoplanet · gas giant

HD 185283 b

HD 185283 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 185283. Its year lasts 4,060 Earth days. It was discovered in 2023 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starHD 185283
Distance102.4 light-years (31.4 pc)
Orbital period11.1 years
Orbital radius4.6 AU
Eccentricity0.070
Radius13.6 R⊕ · 1.21 R♃
Mass413 M⊕ · 1.3 M♃
Density0.903 g/cm³
Surface gravity2.23 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature94 K (-179 °C)
Stellar flux received0.013 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2023
Discovered byLa Silla Observatory

Habitable zone

Beyond the habitable zone: it receives only %1.3 of the light the Earth does, a frozen world.

Its star in the sky

In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.086° across: 0.16 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 9.03. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 34° N. South of latitude 34° S it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in July, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1924. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 1.8 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.