HD 22496 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting HD 22496.
Compared with Earth
- Mass
- About 5.6 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About 300 °C (572 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 26 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 5.1 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- Unknown
- Mass
- 5.57 × Earth
- Density
- Unknown
- Equilibrium temperature
- 573 K
- Starlight received
- 26 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 5.091 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.051 AU
Star
- Host star
- HD 22496
- Spectral class
- K — orange dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 4,385 K
- Radius
- 0.674 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.684 × Sun
- Age
- Unknown
System
- Distance from Earth
- 44.34 light-years (13.6 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 1
Discovery
- Year
- 2021
- Method
- Radial Velocity
- Facility
- Paranal Observatory
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.