Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
HD 68988 b
A confirmed world orbiting HD 68988, 198.4 light-years away.
A gas giant
13.40 Earth radii, Jupiter-class (Jupiter is 11.2). At only 626.1 Earth masses for that size, it must be substantially gas or volatile ices: puffy, not rocky. Orbiting this close, it is a classic 'hot Jupiter', a giant that migrated inward from where it formed.
The orbit
Its year, one full orbit, takes just 6.3 Earth days.
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 906 °C. Hot enough to melt copper; any surface would glow. It receives 340.1 times the starlight Earth gets.
Its sun
Its star is Sun-like (5,932 K, G2 V; the Sun is 5,772 K). It shares the system with 1 other known planet.
How far is that, really?
At 198 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1827. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 3,511,075 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 Multiple Observatories.
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.