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TYC 1422-614-1 c

TYC 1422-614-1 c is a gas giant orbiting the star TYC 1422-614-1. Its year lasts 559 Earth days. It was discovered in 2014 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starTYC 1422-614-1
Distance2,193 light-years (672.4 pc)
Orbital period559 days
Orbital radius1.37 AU
Eccentricity0.048
Radius12.5 R⊕ · 1.12 R♃
Mass (minimum)3,180 M⊕ · 10 M♃
Density8.94 g/cm³
Equilibrium temperature518 K (245 °C)
Stellar flux received11.9 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2014
Discovered byMultiple Observatories

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 11.9 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 2.7° across: 5 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 10.31. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 70° S. North of latitude 70° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in February, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around 168 BC. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 39 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.