Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
bet Pic b
A confirmed world orbiting bet Pic, 64.4 light-years away.
A gas giant
18.49 Earth radii, Jupiter-class (Jupiter is 11.2).
The orbit
Its year takes 8,682 Earth days (23.8 Earth years).
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 1,339 °C. Hot enough to melt copper; any surface would glow. It receives only 0.09 times Earth's starlight.
Its sun
Its star is hotter than the Sun (8,039 K, A6 V), burning brighter and faster. It shares the system with 2 other known planets.
How far is that, really?
At 64 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1961. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 1,139,349 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 2008 from Paranal 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.