[5] Previous direct imaging planet-searching surveys with Gemini, Keck and Palomar failed to detect an exoplanet around BD+60 1417.

A co-moving source around the star was first spotted with the WiseView Tool by the Backyard Worlds citizen scientist Jörg Schümann.

[6] The star shows typical signs of youth, such as x-ray detection with ROSAT[7] and lithium absorption lines.

[8] The star rotates with a period of 7.50 ± 0.86 days, which is seen due to evolving starspots in the TESS light curve.

[2] BD+60 1417 is the only main sequence star with about one solar mass that is orbited by a planetary-mass object at a separation larger than 1000 astronomical units.

[1] The infrared spectrum of the planet shows a red L8γ-type object with water vapor, carbon monoxide, iron(I) hydride and potassium iodide in its atmosphere.

Clouds of forsterite and enstatite should form on BD+60 1417b, if it has similar chemical abundances when compared to the host star.