Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
Elias 2-24 b
A confirmed world orbiting Elias 2-24, 442.7 light-years away.
A gas giant
13.20 Earth radii, Jupiter-class (Jupiter is 11.2).
Its sun
Its star is an orange K-type (4,483 K), K6: cooler and longer-lived than the Sun, a class some astronomers consider ideal for habitability.
How far is that, really?
At 443 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1583. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 7,833,236 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 2026 from W. M. Keck 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.