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Radial velocity · 2023 · habitable zone

HD 154391 b

This world receives 1.46× less starlight than Earth; a year lasts 14.1 years; the light you see left it 329 years ago.

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Size
1.1 × Jupiterestimated
A year
14.1 years7.46 AU
Temperature
−20 °C254 K

About this world

HD 154391 b is a gas giant orbiting HD 154391, a giant star (type K1III) 329 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.1 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass) and holds 9.1 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 14.1 years at 7.5 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 254 K (−20 °C), which places it in the conservative habitable zone: the band where liquid water could exist on a rocky surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2023 by radial velocity with Multiple Observatories. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.

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