Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
TAP 26 b
A confirmed world orbiting TAP 26, 396.0 light-years away.
A gas giant
13.50 Earth radii, Jupiter-class (Jupiter is 11.2). At only 527.6 Earth masses for that size, it must be substantially gas or volatile ices: puffy, not rocky.
The orbit
Its year, one full orbit, takes just 10.8 Earth days.
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 501 °C. Hotter than Venus's surface. It receives 60.0 times the starlight Earth gets.
Its sun
Its star is an orange K-type (4,620 K): cooler and longer-lived than the Sun, a class some astronomers consider ideal for habitability.
How far is that, really?
At 396 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1630. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 7,005,565 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 2017 from Multiple Facilities.
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.