Star system, 1,400 light-years
WASP-12 and its one planet
WASP-12 b is an exoplanet 22.026 times Earth's width, about 2.0 times Jupiter's, 1,400 light-years away, orbiting closer to its star than the habitable zone we compute for it.
WASP-12 is a star of spectral type the table does not record, 1,400 light-years from us, with one known planet.
Drawn at the system's own scale, every orbit from the Archive's numbers.
What is measured, what is computed, what is imagined.
measured The period, and where the table says so the width and the mass, by the method named in each section.
computed Anything marked computed: the size of an orbit where Kepler's third law corrects the table, the temperature of a bare ball at that distance, the starlight received, and the habitable zone.
imagined The picture is an artist's impression. Nobody has seen the surface of a planet of another star: its colour, clouds and land are not known, and the share picture says so in its corner.
WASP-12 b
WASP-12 b is an exoplanet 22.026 times Earth's width, about 2.0 times Jupiter's, 1,400 light-years away, orbiting closer to its star than the habitable zone we compute for it.
- Width
- 22.026 × Earth's measured
- Mass
- 467.21 times Earth's measured
- One year
- 1.09142 days measured
- Distance from its star
- 0.02279 au computed from the period and the star's mass
- Temperature of a bare ball there
- 2,378 K computed, not measured
- Starlight, against Earth's
- 7610 × computed
It was found as a small, regular dip in its star's light each time it crosses in front of it in 2008. Its orbit is closer to its star than the habitable zone computed for it. The Archive's own distance for it is 0.0234 au; the three papers behind its period, its star's mass and that distance do not agree with Kepler's third law, so the page uses the one the period and the star's mass give.
See WASP-12 b in 3D · The picture is an artist's impression.
The star
- Surface temperature
- 6,265 K
- Width
- 1.69 × the Sun's
- Mass
- 1.325 × the Sun's
- Distance
- 1,400 light-years
- Habitable zone, computed
- 1.835 to 3.201 au from the star
- Stars in the system
- 3