Ross 458 c
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- Ross 458
- Distance from Earth
- 11.5094 pc (≈ 37.5 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 14.0113
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 1,906.98
- Semi-major axis
- 1,100 AU
- Equilibrium temperature
- 4.32 K
- Discovery method
- Imaging
- Discovery year
- 2,010
- Discovery facility
- Las Campanas Observatory
- Host spectral type
- M2
- Host temperature
- 3,965.42 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.562566
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.556419
- Host brightness
- 9.76 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 38 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1988 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 14 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- Equilibrium temperature about -269 °C (4 K − 273.15) — water freezes at 0 °C and boils at 100 °C.
Worked out from this object's official values.