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HD 203030 b

HD 203030 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 203030. It was discovered in 2006 by the Imaging method.

Host starHD 203030
Distance128.0 light-years (39.3 pc)
Orbital radius487 AU
Radius14.5 R⊕ · 1.29 R♃
Mass3,500 M⊕ · 11 M♃
Density6.35 g/cm³
Surface gravity16.7 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature1,040 K (767 °C)
Stellar flux received0 × Earth
Discovery methodImaging
Discovery year2006
Discovered byPalomar Observatory

Habitable zone

Beyond the habitable zone: it receives only %0 of the light the Earth does, a frozen world.

Its star in the sky

In the planet's sky its star is a disc 9.4 × 10⁻⁴° across: 0.0018 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 8.45); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 64° S. North of latitude 64° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in August, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1898. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 2.3 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.