HD 20782 is a Sun-like G-type star (about 1.04 solar masses, 5,782 K, 1.13 solar radii), 36.0 light-years from Earth. HD 20782 b has one of the highest eccentricities measured for any planet, swinging from a near-stellar perihelion out past the asteroid belt. HD 20782 b is a 1.49-Jupiter-mass companion, with an orbital period of 1.63 years, at 1.365 AU from its star, on an eccentric orbit (e ≈ 0.95), discovered in 2006 via radial velocity. The planet betrayed itself through the star's reflex motion — a technique that first revealed worlds around Sun-like stars in the 1990s and remains a workhorse of exoplanet discovery. The planet's marked eccentricity suggests past scattering events or perturbations from unseen companions.