HATS-48 A b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting HATS-48 A.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 9 times Earth's width.
- Mass
- About 77 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About 681 °C (1,259 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 138 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 3.1 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- 8.967 × Earth
- Mass
- 77.23 × Earth
- Density
- 0.589 g/cm³
- Equilibrium temperature
- 954.6 K
- Starlight received
- 137.6 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 3.132 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.03769 AU
Star
- Host star
- HATS-48 A
- Spectral class
- K — orange dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 4,546 K
- Radius
- 0.7152 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.7279 × Sun
- Age
- 11.97 billion years
System
- Distance from Earth
- 859.8 light-years (263.6 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 2
- Known planets
- 1
Discovery
- Year
- 2020
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- HATSouth
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.