HD 14787 and Its Planet

HD 14787 is a G-type star 389 light-years away. Its spectral type places it in the same broad temperature class as the Sun. The star is more massive than the Sun at 1.43 solar masses and larger at 5.01 solar radii. Its temperature is 4950 K, cooler than the Sun's. One planet orbits this star.

That planet is HD 14787 b, discovered in 2018 by radial velocity, a method that detects the wobble a planet's gravity induces in its star's motion. It has a minimum mass of 356 Earth masses, a lower bound on its true mass. That minimum mass is larger than Earth's and roughly 1.12 times Jupiter's mass. The planet completes one orbit every 677 days.