Isagel
HD 102956 b
IAU name «Isagel» — Sweden, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 102956
- Distance from Earth
- 121.89 pc (≈ 397.6 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.8
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 305.1168
- Orbital period
- 6.4947 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.0807 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.037
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,804.96 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,010
- Discovery facility
- W. M. Keck Observatory
- Host spectral type
- G5
- Host temperature
- 4,985 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 4.55
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1.66
- Host brightness
- 7.86 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 398 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1628 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 14 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 6.5 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.