About this world
HD 164509 b is a gas giant orbiting HD 164509, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G5) 173 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.3 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 0.44 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 280 days at 0.87 AU from its star, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.24).
Its equilibrium temperature is about 319 K (46 °C), which places it in the optimistic 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 2012 by radial velocity with W. M. Keck Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.