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HD 81817 c

HD 81817 c is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 81817. Its year lasts 623 Earth days. It was discovered in 2022 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starHD 81817
Distance877.8 light-years (269.1 pc)
Orbital period623 days
Orbital radius2.33 AU
Eccentricity0.095
Radius12 R⊕ · 1.07 R♃
Mass (minimum)7,190 M⊕ · 22.6 M♃
Density22.9 g/cm³
Equilibrium temperature1,199 K (925 °C)
Stellar flux received337 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2022
Discovered byMultiple Observatories

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 337 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 19° across: 36 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

Visible to the naked eye under a dark sky (apparent magnitude 4.28). Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 9° S. North of latitude 9° N it never sets.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1148. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 16 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.