Exoplanet · gas giant
KELT-9 b
KELT-9 b is a gas giant orbiting the star KELT-9. Its year lasts 1.48 Earth days. It was discovered in 2017 by the Transit method.
| Host star | KELT-9 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 666.9 light-years (204.5 pc) |
| Orbital period | 35.5 hours |
| Orbital radius | 0.0337 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.000 |
| Radius | 21.7 R⊕ · 1.94 R♃ |
| Mass | 915 M⊕ · 2.88 M♃ |
| Density | 0.491 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 1.94 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 3,921 K (3,648 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 44,900 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2017 |
| Discovered by | KELT-North |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 44,900 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 37° across: 69 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 7.59); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 50° S. North of latitude 50° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in July, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around the year 1359. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 12 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.