Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
NY Vir b
A confirmed world orbiting NY Vir, 1,774.4 light-years away.
A gas giant
13.30 Earth radii, Jupiter-class (Jupiter is 11.2). At only 731.0 Earth masses for that size, it must be substantially gas or volatile ices: puffy, not rocky.
The orbit
Its year takes 3,160 Earth days (8.7 Earth years).
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 65 °C. It receives 2.2 times the starlight Earth gets.
Its sun
Its star is hotter than the Sun (32,780 K), burning brighter and faster. The system holds 2 stars, so its skies have more than one sun. It shares the system with 1 other known planet.
How far is that, really?
At 1,774 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 251. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 31,393,187 years to get there.
How we found it
It was inferred from eclipse timing variations in its binary star system. The discovery was announced in 2011 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.