Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
HD 278555 b
A confirmed world orbiting HD 278555, 945.3 light-years away.
A gas giant
11.03 Earth radii, Jupiter-class (Jupiter is 11.2). At only 267.0 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 28.8 Earth days.
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 580 °C. Hotter than Venus's surface. It receives 79.4 times the starlight Earth gets.
Its sun
Its star is hotter than the Sun (6,047 K, F8), burning brighter and faster.
How far is that, really?
At 945 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1080. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 16,724,733 years to get there.
How we found it
It was found by the transit method: the planet crosses its star's face on schedule, dimming it by a tiny, repeating fraction. The dip's depth gives the planet's size. The discovery was announced in 2026 from Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
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.