Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
75 Cet b
A confirmed world orbiting 75 Cet, 270.6 light-years away.
A gas giant
13.30 Earth radii, Jupiter-class (Jupiter is 11.2). At only 787.9 Earth masses for that size, it must be substantially gas or volatile ices: puffy, not rocky.
The orbit
Its year takes 697 Earth days (1.9 Earth years).
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 267 °C. Above water's boiling point. It receives 14.2 times the starlight Earth gets.
Its sun
Its star is an orange K-type (4,809 K), G3 III: cooler and longer-lived than the Sun, a class some astronomers consider ideal for habitability. The system holds 2 stars, so its skies have more than one sun. It shares the system with 1 other known planet.
How far is that, really?
At 271 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1755. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 4,787,325 years to get there.
How we found it
It was found by the radial-velocity method: the planet's gravity swings its star in a small circle, and that wobble shows up as a rhythmic Doppler shift in the starlight. The wobble's size gives the planet's minimum mass. The discovery was announced in 2012 from Okayama Astrophysical Observatory.
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.