TOI-261.01
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting TOI-261.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 3 times Earth's width.
- Temperature
- About 1,449 °C (2,641 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 875 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 3.4 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- 3.045 × Earth
- Mass
- Unknown
- Density
- Unknown
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,722 K
- Starlight received
- 874.8 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 3.364 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.03479 AU
Star
- Host star
- TOI-261
- Spectral class
- G — sun-like
- Surface temperature
- 5,890 K
- Radius
- 1.28 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.4967 × Sun
- Age
- Unknown
System
- Distance from Earth
- 373.4 light-years (114.5 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 2
Discovery
- Year
- 2021
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.