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HD 33564 b

HD 33564 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 33564. Its year lasts 388 Earth days. It was discovered in 2005 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starHD 33564
Distance68.3 light-years (21.0 pc)
Orbital period388 days
Orbital radius1.1 AU
Eccentricity0.340
Radius12.5 R⊕ · 1.12 R♃
Mass (minimum)2,890 M⊕ · 9.1 M♃
Density8.14 g/cm³
Equilibrium temperature344 K (71 °C)
Stellar flux received2.83 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2005
Discovered byHaute-Provence Observatory

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 2.83 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 0.7° across: 1.3 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

Visible to the naked eye under a dark sky (apparent magnitude 5.08). Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 11° S. North of latitude 11° N it never sets.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1958. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 1.2 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.