Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
CT Cha b
A confirmed world orbiting CT Cha, 622.0 light-years away.
A gas giant
24.66 Earth radii, Jupiter-class (Jupiter is 11.2).
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 2,327 °C. Hot enough to melt copper; any surface would glow.
Its sun
Its star is an orange K-type (4,403 K), K5e: cooler and longer-lived than the Sun, a class some astronomers consider ideal for habitability.
How far is that, really?
At 622 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1403. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 11,005,596 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 2007 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.