Exoplanet · gas giant
HD 97048 b
HD 97048 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 97048. It was discovered in 2019 by the Disk Kinematics method.
| Host star | HD 97048 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 599.7 light-years (183.9 pc) |
| Orbital radius | 130 AU |
| Radius | 13.3 R⊕ · 1.19 R♃ |
| Mass | 795 M⊕ · 2.5 M♃ |
| Density | 1.86 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 4.49 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 63 K (-210 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 0.0024 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Disk Kinematics |
| Discovery year | 2019 |
| Discovered by | Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) |
Habitable zone
Beyond the habitable zone: it receives only %0.24 of the light the Earth does, a frozen world.
Its star in the sky
In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.0092° across: 0.017 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 8.44); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 12° N. South of latitude 12° S it never sets.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around the year 1426. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 11 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.