Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
2M0437 b
A confirmed world orbiting 2MASS J04372171+2651014, 419.1 light-years away.
A gas giant
13.00 Earth radii, Jupiter-class (Jupiter is 11.2).
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 1,177 °C. Hot enough to melt copper; any surface would glow.
Its sun
Its star is a red dwarf (3,100 K surface), type M V: small, dim, flare-prone, and destined to outlive the Sun many times over.
How far is that, really?
At 419 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1606. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 7,414,236 years to get there.
How we found it
It was directly imaged, one of the rare planets actually photographed as its own point of light, possible only for young, hot, wide-orbiting giants. The discovery was announced in 2021 from Subaru Telescope.
Everything above is computed from the archive’s measured values for this planet. Where a quantity is missing, the statement is omitted rather than guessed.
About this record
The measured values come from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, and any missing value has not been determined yet; the Atlas never fills gaps with guesses. More standout worlds: Proxima b, TRAPPIST-1e, K2-18 b, 55 Cancri e, and the detection methods that found them all.