Vytis
HAT-P-40 b
IAU name «Vytis» — Lithuania, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HAT-P-40
- Distance from Earth
- 464.469 pc (≈ 1,514.9 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 17.0377
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 152.5584
- Orbital period
- 4.4572 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.0608 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,770 K
- Discovery method
- Transit
- Discovery year
- 2,012
- Discovery facility
- HATNet
- Host temperature
- 6,080 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 1.94
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1.03
- Host brightness
- 11.34 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 1,515 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 511 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 17 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 4.5 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.