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HD 5319 b

HD 5319 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 5319. Its year lasts 637 Earth days. It was discovered in 2007 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starHD 5319
Distance396.0 light-years (121.4 pc)
Orbital period637 days
Orbital radius1.57 AU
Eccentricity0.092
Radius13.5 R⊕ · 1.2 R♃
Mass (minimum)495 M⊕ · 1.56 M♃
Density1.1 g/cm³
Equilibrium temperature378 K (105 °C)
Stellar flux received3.28 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2007
Discovered byW. M. Keck Observatory

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 3.28 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 1.4° across: 2.6 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 8.05); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 89° S. It stands highest at midnight in October, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1630. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 7.0 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.