WD 0806-661 is 62.8 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this DQ star; the first was found in 2011 by imaging (Spitzer Space Telescope).
Fly there in 3DWD 0806-661 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.
| Spectral type | DQ |
| Surface temperature | 10,393 K |
| Mass | 0.605 solar masses |
| Apparent magnitude | 13.855 |
| Age | about 1.6 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 62.8 light-years (19.2 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 121.7276°, Dec -66.3059° |
| Constellation | Volans |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WD 0806-661 b | 160711.8 years from Kepler’s law | 2500.000 AU | 12.106 R⊕ | 2224.8 M⊕ | Imaging, 2011 |
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.