About this world
HD 72892 b is a gas giant orbiting HD 72892, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G5V) 227 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.1 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 5.5 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 39.4 days at 0.23 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.42).
Its equilibrium temperature is about 634 K (361 °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 2016 by radial velocity with Multiple Observatories. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.