Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
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A confirmed world orbiting bet Pic, 64.4 light-years away.
A gas giant
14.12 Earth radii, Jupiter-class (Jupiter is 11.2). At only 762.8 Earth masses for that size, it must be substantially gas or volatile ices: puffy, not rocky.
The orbit
Its year takes 33,200 Earth days (90.9 Earth years). The orbit is strongly stretched (eccentricity 0.44), so its distance from the star, and with it the climate, swings dramatically.
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 327 °C. Above water's boiling point. It receives only 0.01 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 2026 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.