GJ 740 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting GJ 740.
Compared with Earth
- Mass
- About 3 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About 556 °C (1,033 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 79 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 2.4 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- Unknown
- Mass
- 2.96 × Earth
- Density
- Unknown
- Equilibrium temperature
- 829 K
- Starlight received
- 79 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 2.378 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.029 AU
Star
- Host star
- GJ 740
- Spectral class
- K — orange dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 3,913 K
- Radius
- 0.56 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.58 × Sun
- Age
- Unknown
System
- Distance from Earth
- 36.21 light-years (11.1 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 1
Discovery
- Year
- 2021
- Method
- Radial Velocity
- Facility
- Multiple Observatories
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.