HIP 63242 is a Sun-like G-type star (about 1.54 solar masses, 4,830 K), 156 light-years from Earth. HIP 63242 b is a 9.18-Jupiter-mass companion, with an orbital period of 125 days, at 0.565 AU from its star, on an eccentric orbit (e ≈ 0.23), discovered in 2013 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.