GJ 806 b
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- GJ 806
- Distance from Earth
- 12.0445 pc (≈ 39.3 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Super Earth
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 1.331
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 1.9
- Orbital period
- 0.926324 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.01406 AU
- Equilibrium temperature
- 940 K
- Discovery method
- Transit
- Discovery year
- 2,023
- Discovery facility
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
- Host spectral type
- M1.5 V
- Host temperature
- 3,600 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.4144
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.413
- Host brightness
- 10.79 mag
Source:NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 39 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1987 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 1.3 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 22.2 hours — more than 1.1 orbits a day.
Worked out from this object's official values.