SpazeHot Jupiter, 64 light years away, Beta Pic
Beta Pictoris b
A young giant photographed directly, still warm from its birth inside a dusty disc.
- Distance
- 64.4 light years
- Year
- 23.8 years
- Size
- 1.6 × Jupiter
- Temperature
- 1,339 °C
- Mass
- 8.7 × Jupiter
- Found
- 2008, Paranal Observatory
Can we live on Beta Pictoris b?
Air: H₂, He. Not breathable: you’d need a suit and your own oxygen.
Gravity: 8.09 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 566 kg there.
Temperature: 1,339 °C on average.
Clouds: Hot young giant inside a dusty disc.
Atmosphere
- H₂
- He
- H₂O
- CO
Measured by VLT GRAVITY