HD 48948 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting HD 48948.
Compared with Earth
- Mass
- About 4.9 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About 684 °C (1,263 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 139 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 7.3 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- Unknown
- Mass
- 4.88 × Earth
- Density
- Unknown
- Equilibrium temperature
- 957 K
- Starlight received
- 138.9 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 7.34 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.0652 AU
Star
- Host star
- HD 48948
- Spectral class
- K — orange dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 4,593 K
- Radius
- 0.679 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.686 × Sun
- Age
- 11.48 billion years
System
- Distance from Earth
- 55.13 light-years (16.9 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 3
Discovery
- Year
- 2024
- Method
- Radial Velocity
- Facility
- Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.