Wangshu
HD 173416 b
IAU name «Wangshu» — China Nanjing, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 173416
- Distance from Earth
- 132.184 pc (≈ 431.1 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.4
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 585.1221
- Orbital period
- 322.03 days
- Semi-major axis
- 1.158 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.208
- Equilibrium temperature
- 771.03 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,008
- Discovery facility
- Xinglong Station
- Host spectral type
- G8
- Host temperature
- 4,683 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 13.5
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 2
- Host brightness
- 6.0419 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 431 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1595 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 13 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 322 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.