GU Psc

Planetary system · 155.1 light-years away

GU Psc is 155 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this M3 star; the first was found in 2014 by imaging (Gemini Observatory).

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Worth knowing

GU Psc b was photographed directly: it is one of the few exoplanets seen as its own point of light rather than inferred from its star.

Where the archive gives only a period or only an orbit size, the other is worked out from Kepler’s third law with the star’s mass.

The star

Spectral typeM3
Surface temperature4,032 K
Mass0.325 solar masses
Radius0.450458 solar radii
Luminosity0.02501 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude14.146
Ageabout 0.1 billion years
Distance from the Sun155.1 light-years (47.6 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 18.1465°, Dec 17.0650°
ConstellationPisces

Planets (1)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
GU Psc b156906.2 years from Kepler’s law2000.000 AU14.179 R⊕3591.3 M⊕Imaging, 2014

Values are the NASA Exoplanet Archive’s composite parameters. A radius marked estimated comes from a mass–radius relation; a mass marked minimum is M sin i. Planet sizes and colours in the 3D view are renderings: none of these worlds has been photographed as more than a point of light.

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