HATS-72 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting HATS-72.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 8.1 times Earth's width.
- Mass
- About 40 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About 466 °C (871 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 50 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 7.3 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- 8.097 × Earth
- Mass
- 39.86 × Earth
- Density
- 0.411 g/cm³
- Equilibrium temperature
- 739.3 K
- Starlight received
- 49.58 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 7.328 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.06652 AU
Star
- Host star
- HATS-72
- Spectral class
- K — orange dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 4,656 K
- Radius
- 0.7214 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.7311 × Sun
- Age
- 12.17 billion years
System
- Distance from Earth
- 416.1 light-years (127.6 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 1
Discovery
- Year
- 2020
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- HATSouth
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.