Exoplanet · gas giant
HIP 54515 b
HIP 54515 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HIP 54515. Its year lasts 33,000 Earth days. It was discovered in 2026 by the Imaging method.
| Host star | HIP 54515 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 270.1 light-years (82.8 pc) |
| Orbital period | 90.3 years |
| Orbital radius | 24.8 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.420 |
| Radius | 12.2 R⊕ · 1.09 R♃ |
| Mass | 5,630 M⊕ · 17.7 M♃ |
| Density | 17 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 37.8 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 101 K (-172 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 0.0171 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Imaging |
| Discovery year | 2026 |
| Discovered by | Subaru Telescope |
Habitable zone
Beyond the habitable zone: it receives only %1.7 of the light the Earth does, a frozen world.
Its star in the sky
In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.035° across: 0.066 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 6.82); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 89° N. It stands highest at midnight in March, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around the year 1756. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 4.8 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.