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TOI-532 b

TOI-532 b is a Neptune-like planet orbiting the star TOI-532. Its year lasts 2.33 Earth days. It was discovered in 2021 by the Transit method.

Host starTOI-532
Distance440.5 light-years (135.0 pc)
Orbital period2.33 days
Orbital radius0.0296 AU
Eccentricity0.000
Radius5.82 R⊕ · 0.519 R♃
Mass61.5 M⊕ · 0.194 M♃
Density1.72 g/cm³
Surface gravity1.82 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature867 K (594 °C)
Stellar flux received94.1 × Earth
Discovery methodTransit
Discovery year2021
Discovered byTransiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 94.1 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 11° across: 21 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 14.41. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 78° S. North of latitude 78° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in December, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1586. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 7.8 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.