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Exoplanet · gas giant

HD 211403 b

HD 211403 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 211403. Its year lasts 224 Earth days. It was discovered in 2021 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starHD 211403
Distance271.0 light-years (83.1 pc)
Orbital period224 days
Orbital radius0.768 AU
Eccentricity0.084
Radius12.8 R⊕ · 1.14 R♃
Mass (minimum)1,760 M⊕ · 5.54 M♃
Density4.61 g/cm³
Equilibrium temperature380 K (107 °C)
Stellar flux received3.44 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2021
Discovered byHaute-Provence Observatory

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 3.44 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 0.84° across: 1.6 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 8.48); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 32° S. North of latitude 32° 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 1755. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 4.8 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.