Levantes
HD 95086 b
IAU name «Levantes» — Greece, 2022 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 95086
- Distance from Earth
- 86.2279 pc (≈ 281.2 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 12.9
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 1,589
- Semi-major axis
- 55.7 AU
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,000 K
- Discovery method
- Imaging
- Discovery year
- 2,013
- Discovery facility
- Paranal Observatory
- Host spectral type
- A8 III
- Host temperature
- 7,595 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 1.4867
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1.6
- Host brightness
- 7.36 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 281 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1745 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 13 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- Equilibrium temperature about 727 °C (1,000 K − 273.15) — water freezes at 0 °C and boils at 100 °C.
Worked out from this object's official values.