Exoplanet · gas giant
TOI-6029 b
TOI-6029 b is a gas giant orbiting the star TOI-6029. Its year lasts 5.8 Earth days. It was discovered in 2024 by the Transit method.
| Host star | TOI-6029 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 1,967 light-years (603.1 pc) |
| Orbital period | 5.8 days |
| Eccentricity | 0.091 |
| Radius | 14.4 R⊕ · 1.28 R♃ |
| Mass | 520 M⊕ · 1.64 M♃ |
| Density | 0.958 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 2.51 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 1,484 K (1,211 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 807 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2024 |
| Discovered by | Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 807 times the light the Earth does, too hot to keep liquid water on its surface.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 12.90. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 28° S. North of latitude 28° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in September, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around the year 59. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 35 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.