Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
UZ For b
A confirmed world orbiting UZ For, 781.5 light-years away.
A giant planet
about 2002 Earth masses (Jupiter is 318).
The orbit
Its year takes 5,840 Earth days (16.0 Earth years).
Its sun
Its star is an orange K-type (5,287 K): cooler and longer-lived than the Sun, a class some astronomers consider ideal for habitability. 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 781 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1244. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 13,826,466 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.