Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
HD 142 b
A confirmed world orbiting HD 142, 85.4 light-years away.
A gas giant
12.70 Earth radii, Jupiter-class (Jupiter is 11.2). With 2256.6 Earth masses packed into that size, its density points to rock and iron rather than gas.
The orbit
Its year takes 351 Earth days (1.0 Earth years).
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 85 °C. It receives 2.8 times the starlight Earth gets.
Its sun
Its star is hotter than the Sun (6,245 K, F7V), burning brighter and faster. The system holds 2 stars, so its skies have more than one sun. It shares the system with 2 other known planets.
How far is that, really?
At 85 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1940. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 1,511,036 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 2001 from Anglo-Australian Telescope.
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.