YSES 2 b

Exoplanet orbiting YSES 2

YSES 2 b is an exoplanet orbiting the star YSES 2 (TYC 8984-2245-1) in the constellation of Musca.^[3] It was discovered through direct imaging by Bohn et al. in 2021. The planet is unusually far from its young host star.^[3]

Its year is 1176.5 Earth years,^[2] and its semi-major axis is 114 AU. Its mass is 6.3+1.6
−0.9 Jupiter masses, its radius is unknown, and its temperature is unknown.

YSES 2, the host star, is a young, Sun-like star. It is approximately 360 ly from Earth in Scorpius-Centaurus Association. Its age is 14 million years.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "The Extrasolar Planet Encyclopaedia — YSES 2 b". Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. Retrieved 2021-06-05.
^ ^a ^b "Exoplanet-catalog". Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
^ ^a ^b "Astronomers photograph giant exoplanet in unusual large orbit". earthsky.org. 2021-05-11. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
^ "Giant planet at large distance from sun-like star puzzles astronomers - Astronomie.nl". www.astronomie.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-07-17.

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