Exoplanet · gas giant
TOI-169 b
TOI-169 b is a gas giant orbiting the star TOI-169. Its year lasts 2.26 Earth days. It was discovered in 2020 by the Transit method.
| Host star | TOI-169 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 1,330 light-years (407.8 pc) |
| Orbital period | 2.26 days |
| Orbital radius | 0.0352 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.000 |
| Radius | 12.2 R⊕ · 1.09 R♃ |
| Mass | 251 M⊕ · 0.791 M♃ |
| Density | 0.76 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 1.7 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 1,715 K (1,442 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 1,440 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2020 |
| Discovered by | Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 1,440 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 19° across: 36 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 12.36. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 15° N. South of latitude 15° S it never sets.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around the year 696. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 24 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.