HD 153950
HD 153950 is an F-type main sequence star that is hotter and larger than our Sun. It is located in the southern constellation Scorpius. It is a 7th magnitude star at a distance of about 188 light years from Earth.
The star HD 153950 is named Rapeto. The name was selected in the NameExoWorlds campaign by Madagascar, during the 100th anniversary of the IAU. Rapeto is a giant creature from Malagasy tales.In October 2008, an exoplanet of the star was discovered. This object was detected using the radial velocity method by search programs conducted using the HARPS spectrograph. It has a mass roughly 2.73 times of Jupiter and potentially orbits in the habitable zone of its parent star.
