HD 209458 b

An exoplanet 158 light-years away

Quick Stats

~1.4 x Jupiter
158 light-years
No
1999
F-type

HD 209458 b (Osiris), discovered in 1999, is a puffy Hot Jupiter ~1.4 times Jupiter’s size orbiting a Sun-like star every 3.5 days. First with detected atmosphere—boiling off hydrogen into a comet tail.

Inflated and evaporating, dayside ~2,000°F (1,100°C)—no life, just cosmic leak.

The “evaporating planet” that proved we can study alien air from Earth.