Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
TOI-1272 b
A confirmed world orbiting TOI-1272, 448.7 light-years away.
A Neptune-class world
4.26 Earth radii, in the ice-giant size range. At only 24.1 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 3.3 Earth days. The orbit is strongly stretched (eccentricity 0.34), 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 778 °C. Hotter than Venus's surface. It receives 120.6 times the starlight Earth gets.
Its sun
Its star is an orange K-type (4,985 K), K2 V - K3 V: cooler and longer-lived than the Sun, a class some astronomers consider ideal for habitability.
How far is that, really?
At 449 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1577. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 7,938,663 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 2022 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.