Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
HD 60779 c
A confirmed world orbiting HD 60779, 115.6 light-years away.
A Neptune-class world
5.79 Earth radii, in the ice-giant size range. At only 28.3 Earth masses for that size, it must be substantially gas or volatile ices: puffy, not rocky.
The orbit
Its year takes 105 Earth days (0.3 Earth years).
Its sun
Its star is hotter than the Sun (6,081 K, G1 V), burning brighter and faster. It shares the system with 1 other known planet.
How far is that, really?
At 116 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1910. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 2,045,343 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 2026 from Roque de los Muchachos 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.