About this world
HD 185269 b is a gas giant orbiting HD 185269, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G0IV) 170 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 1 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 6.84 days at 0.077 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.23).
Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,456 K (1,182 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.
It was discovered in 2006 by radial velocity with Lick Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.