Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
HR 858 b
A confirmed world orbiting HR 858, 104.3 light-years away.
A sub-Neptune
2.00 Earth radii, likely a rocky core under a thick gas or steam envelope rather than a walkable surface.
The orbit
Its year, one full orbit, takes just 3.6 Earth days.
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 1,279 °C. Hot enough to melt copper; any surface would glow. It receives 989.7 times the starlight Earth gets.
Its sun
Its star is hotter than the Sun (6,354 K, F6 V), burning brighter and faster. The system holds 2 stars, so its skies have more than one sun. It shares the system with 2 other known planets.
How far is that, really?
At 104 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1921. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 1,844,499 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 2019 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.