Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
HD 85390 b
A confirmed world orbiting HD 85390, 109.3 light-years away.
A Neptune-class world
6.16 Earth radii, in the ice-giant size range. At only 31.5 Earth masses for that size, it must be substantially gas or volatile ices: puffy, not rocky.
The orbit
Its year takes 800 Earth days (2.2 Earth years). The orbit is strongly stretched (eccentricity 0.50), so its distance from the star, and with it the climate, swings dramatically.
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about -82 °C. It receives 0.23 times Earth's starlight, the same order as our own world.
Its sun
Its star is an orange K-type (5,186 K), K1.5 V: cooler and longer-lived than the Sun, a class some astronomers consider ideal for habitability.
How far is that, really?
At 109 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1916. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 1,934,433 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 2011 from La Silla 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.