Ġgantija
HAT-P-34 b
IAU name «Ġgantija» — Malta, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HAT-P-34
- Distance from Earth
- 249.325 pc (≈ 813.2 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.4172
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 1,058.3739
- Orbital period
- 5.4527 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.06774 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.432
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,520 K
- Discovery method
- Transit
- Discovery year
- 2,011
- Discovery facility
- HATNet
- Host temperature
- 6,442 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 1.53
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1.392
- Host brightness
- 10.403 mag
Source:NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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Host star
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 813 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1213 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 13 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 5.5 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.