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Exoplanet · gas giant

HD 211810 b

HD 211810 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 211810. Its year lasts 1,560 Earth days. It was discovered in 2018 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starHD 211810
Distance210.8 light-years (64.6 pc)
Orbital period4.27 years
Orbital radius2.66 AU
Eccentricity0.680
Radius14 R⊕ · 1.25 R♃
Mass (minimum)213 M⊕ · 0.67 M♃
Density0.426 g/cm³
Equilibrium temperature178 K (-95 °C)
Stellar flux received0.167 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2018
Discovered byW. M. Keck Observatory

Habitable zone

Beyond the habitable zone: it receives only %17 of the light the Earth does, a frozen world.

Its star in the sky

In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.23° across: 0.43 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 8.59); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 29° S. North of latitude 29° 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 1815. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 3.7 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.