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TOI-5678 b

TOI-5678 b is a Neptune-like planet orbiting the star TOI-5678. Its year lasts 47.7 Earth days. It was discovered in 2023 by the Transit method.

Host starTOI-5678
Distance539.4 light-years (165.4 pc)
Orbital period47.7 days
Orbital radius0.249 AU
Eccentricity0.140
Radius4.91 R⊕ · 0.438 R♃
Mass20 M⊕ · 0.0629 M♃
Density0.928 g/cm³
Surface gravity0.83 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature513 K (240 °C)
Stellar flux received3.84 × Earth
Discovery methodTransit
Discovery year2023
Discovered byTransiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 3.84 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 2° across: 3.8 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 11.51. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 56° N. South of latitude 56° S it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in November, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1487. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 9.6 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.