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Direct imaging · 2024

ITG 15 b

This world the light you see left it 445 years ago.

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Size
1.1 × Jupiterestimated
A year
—435 AU
Temperature
2,328 °C2,601 K

About this world

ITG 15 b is a gas giant orbiting ITG 15 A, a star 445 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.1 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass) and holds 21 Jupiter masses.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 2,601 K (2,328 °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 2024 by direct imaging with European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia Satellite. The planet itself is photographed, its star blocked by a coronagraph.

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