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OGLE-TR-182 b

OGLE-TR-182 b is a gas giant orbiting the star OGLE-TR-182. Its year lasts 3.98 Earth days. It was discovered in 2007 by the Transit method.

Host starOGLE-TR-182
Distance8,160 light-years (2,502 pc)
Orbital period3.98 days
Orbital radius0.051 AU
Eccentricity0.000
Radius12.7 R⊕ · 1.13 R♃
Mass321 M⊕ · 1.01 M♃
Density0.41 g/cm³
Surface gravity2 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature1,550 K (1,277 °C)
Stellar flux received669 × Earth
Discovery methodTransit
Discovery year2007
Discovered byOGLE

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 669 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 12° across: 22 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 16.92. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 29° N. South of latitude 29° S it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in March, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out 8,160 years ago. At that time the first farming villages were being founded; there was no writing yet. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 145 million years.

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.