GJ 876 b
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- GJ 876
- Distance from Earth
- 4.6752 pc (≈ 15.2 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.3
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 723.2235
- Orbital period
- 61.1166 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.208317 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0324
- Equilibrium temperature
- 190.6 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 1,998
- Discovery facility
- Multiple Observatories
- Host spectral type
- M2.5V
- Host temperature
- 3,293.74 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.3
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.32
- Host brightness
- 10.16 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 ↗
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 15 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 2011 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 13 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 61.1 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.