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HD 5583 b

HD 5583 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 5583. Its year lasts 139 Earth days. It was discovered in 2016 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starHD 5583
Distance715.0 light-years (219.2 pc)
Orbital period139 days
Orbital radius0.53 AU
Eccentricity0.076
Radius12.8 R⊕ · 1.14 R♃
Mass (minimum)1,840 M⊕ · 5.78 M♃
Density4.81 g/cm³
Equilibrium temperature965 K (691 °C)
Stellar flux received145 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2016
Discovered byRoque de los Muchachos Observatory

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 145 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 9.1° across: 17 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 7.71); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 55° S. North of latitude 55° N it never sets. 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 1311. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 13 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.