HD 15906 c

A confirmed exoplanet orbiting HD 15906.

Compared with Earth

Size
About 2.9 times Earth's width.
Temperature
About 259 °C (498 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
Starlight
About 13 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
Year
A year here lasts about 22 Earth days.

Planet

Radius
2.93 × Earth
Mass
Unknown
Density
Unknown
Equilibrium temperature
532 K
Starlight received
13.37 × Earth
Orbital period
21.58 days
Average distance from its star
0.141 AU

Star

Host star
HD 15906
Spectral class
K — orange dwarf
Surface temperature
4,757 K
Radius
0.762 × Sun
Mass
0.79 × Sun
Age
Unknown

System

Distance from Earth
148.6 light-years (45.56 parsecs)
Stars in system
1
Known planets
2

Discovery

Year
2023
Method
Transit
Facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.