It has an apparent magnitude of 17.4,[2] making it visible only in power telescopes.
Its distance is not well known, but it is estimated to be roughly 2,000 parsecs away from the Solar System.
[2] Lupus-TR-3 has a stellar classification of K1 V,[3] indicating that it is an ordinary K-type main-sequence star.
It radiates at an effective temperature of 5,000 K.[2] Lupus-TR-3 b is an exoplanet discovered in 2007 by personnel from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian using the transit method.
It has four-fifths the mass of Jupiter, nine-tenths the radius, and has density of 1.4 g/cm3.