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HD 207832 b

HD 207832 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 207832. Its year lasts 160 Earth days. It was discovered in 2012 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starHD 207832
Distance192.2 light-years (58.9 pc)
Orbital period160 days
Orbital radius0.586 AU
Eccentricity0.197
Radius14.2 R⊕ · 1.27 R♃
Mass (minimum)178 M⊕ · 0.56 M♃
Density0.342 g/cm³
Equilibrium temperature340 K (67 °C)
Stellar flux received2.26 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2012
Discovered byW. M. Keck Observatory

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 2.26 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 0.81° across: 1.5 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 8.78); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 64° N. South of latitude 64° S 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 1834. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 3.4 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.