Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
HD 180314 b
A confirmed world orbiting HD 180314, 399.1 light-years away.
A gas giant
12.00 Earth radii, Jupiter-class (Jupiter is 11.2). With 7216.9 Earth masses packed into that size, its density points to rock and iron rather than gas.
The orbit
Its year takes 395 Earth days (1.1 Earth years).
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 324 °C. Above water's boiling point. It receives 21.0 times the starlight Earth gets.
Its sun
Its star is an orange K-type (4,917 K), K0: cooler and longer-lived than the Sun, a class some astronomers consider ideal for habitability.
How far is that, really?
At 399 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1626. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 7,060,963 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 2010 from Subaru 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.