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Diagram, not a photograph. Sizes to scale; distance from the star on a logarithmic scale, worked out from the orbital period and the star’s mass. The planet’s colour shows its equilibrium temperature (scorching), not its real colour. Source: NASA Exoplanet Archive.

Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis

HD 206893 b

A confirmed world orbiting HD 206893, 132.9 light-years away.

132.9 light-years (40.8 pc) Discovered 2021 · Imaging

A gas giant

14.01 Earth radii, Jupiter-class (Jupiter is 11.2). With 6197.7 Earth masses packed into that size, its density points to rock and iron rather than gas.

The orbit

Its year takes 11,100 Earth days (30.4 Earth years).

Temperature and starlight

Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 1,156 °C. Hot enough to melt copper; any surface would glow. It receives only 0.02 times Earth's starlight.

Its sun

Its star is hotter than the Sun (6,500 K, F5 V), burning brighter and faster. It shares the system with 1 other known planet.

How far is that, really?

At 133 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1893. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 2,351,979 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 2021 from Gemini 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.

Sister planets around HD 206893