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TOI-969 c

TOI-969 c is a gas giant orbiting the star TOI-969. Its year lasts 1,700 Earth days. It was discovered in 2022 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starTOI-969
Distance252.0 light-years (77.3 pc)
Orbital period4.65 years
Orbital radius2.52 AU
Eccentricity0.628
Radius12.4 R⊕ · 1.11 R♃
Mass (minimum)3,590 M⊕ · 11.3 M♃
Density10.4 g/cm³
Equilibrium temperature96 K (-177 °C)
Stellar flux received0.0208 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2022
Discovered byMultiple Observatories

Habitable zone

Beyond the habitable zone: it receives only %2.1 of the light the Earth does, a frozen world.

Its star in the sky

In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.14° across: 0.27 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 11.77. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 88° S. It stands highest at midnight in January, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1774. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 4.5 million years.

Planets in the same system

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.