Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
GJ 3470 b
A confirmed world orbiting GJ 3470, 96.0 light-years away.
A Neptune-class world
4.57 Earth radii, in the ice-giant size range. At only 13.9 Earth masses for that size, it must be substantially gas or volatile ices: puffy, not rocky.
The orbit
Its year, one full orbit, takes just 3.3 Earth days. Orbiting this tightly around a cool star, it is very likely tidally locked: one hemisphere in permanent day, the other in permanent night.
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 320 °C. Above water's boiling point. It receives 29.7 times the starlight Earth gets.
Its sun
Its star is a red dwarf (3,600 K surface), type M1.5: small, dim, flare-prone, and destined to outlive the Sun many times over.
How far is that, really?
At 96 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1930. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 1,697,777 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 La Silla 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.