Exoplanet · gas giant
HD 8673 b
HD 8673 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 8673. Its year lasts 1,640 Earth days. It was discovered in 2009 by the Radial Velocity method.
| Host star | HD 8673 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 123.5 light-years (37.9 pc) |
| Orbital period | 4.5 years |
| Orbital radius | 2.97 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.730 |
| Radius | 12.3 R⊕ · 1.1 R♃ |
| Mass | 4,210 M⊕ · 13.2 M♃ |
| Density | 12.4 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 27.8 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 219 K (-54 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 0.384 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Radial Velocity |
| Discovery year | 2009 |
| Discovered by | Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg |
Habitable zone
Inside its star's habitable zone: it receives enough light for liquid water to exist on its surface under a suitable atmosphere.
Its star in the sky
In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.27° across: 0.51 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
Visible to the naked eye under a dark sky (apparent magnitude 6.34). 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 1903. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 2.2 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.