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WASP-39 and its one planet

WASP-39 b is an exoplanet 14.336 times Earth's width, about 1.3 times Jupiter's, 700 light-years away, orbiting closer to its star than the habitable zone we compute for it.

WASP-39 is a star of spectral type the table does not record, 700 light-years from us, with one known planet.

Fly to WASP-39 in 3D

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-39 b

WASP-39 b is an exoplanet 14.336 times Earth's width, about 1.3 times Jupiter's, 700 light-years away, orbiting closer to its star than the habitable zone we compute for it.

Width
14.336 × Earth's measured
Mass
89.31 times Earth's measured
One year
4.05529 days measured
Distance from its star
0.04828 au from the Archive
Temperature of a bare ball there
1,076 K computed, not measured
Starlight, against Earth's
320 × computed

It was found as a small, regular dip in its star's light each time it crosses in front of it in 2011. Its orbit is closer to its star than the habitable zone computed for it.

See WASP-39 b in 3D · The picture is an artist's impression.

The star

Surface temperature
5,485 K
Width
0.939 × the Sun's
Mass
0.913 × the Sun's
Distance
700 light-years
Habitable zone, computed
0.8346 to 1.484 au from the star

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