:INFO
Gas giant around HD 100546
It is 6.90 times Jupiter's radius, closest in size to Jupiter, and 2701.5 times Earth's mass. The host star HD 100546 runs at 10500 K with 2.40 times the Sun's mass.

:STATS
[icon:TARGET] Radius | 77.34 Earth radii
[icon:CHART] Mass | 2701.5 Earth masses
[icon:BOLT] Orbit radius | 53.0000 AU
[icon:STAR] Host star | HD 100546 at 10500 K
[icon:USERS] Distance | 358 light-years

:COUNTER
6.9x Jupiter: among the largest planets measured

:CHECKLIST
What the archive holds on this planet
[ ] A size. Yes.
[ ] A measured mass. Yes.
[ ] A density, which decides rock or gas. No.
[ ] How far out it orbits. Yes.
[ ] A measured temperature rather than a derived one. No.
[ ] An eccentricity, so we know if the orbit is a circle. No.

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What seeing it actually provides
A position, a brightness, and light that can be split into a spectrum.

:NOTE
Found by Paranal Observatory in 2014.

:NOTE
This is one of the rare planets that has actually been photographed. Fewer than a hundred of the thousands known were found this way, and they are mostly young giants far from their stars.

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:LINK
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/overview/HD%20100546%20b
NASA Exoplanet Archive: the full record for HD 100546 b