LHS 3844 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting LHS 3844.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 1.3 times Earth's width.
- Mass
- About 2.4 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About 543 °C (1,009 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 74 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 11 hours.
Planet
- Radius
- 1.286 × Earth
- Mass
- 2.37 × Earth
- Density
- 6.15 g/cm³
- Equilibrium temperature
- 816 K
- Starlight received
- 73.67 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 0.4629 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.00624 AU
Star
- Host star
- LHS 3844
- Spectral class
- M — red dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 3,080 K
- Radius
- 0.189 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.151 × Sun
- Age
- 7.8 billion years
System
- Distance from Earth
- 48.55 light-years (14.88 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 1
Discovery
- Year
- 2019
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.