Exoplanet · gas giant
WASP-110 b
WASP-110 b is a gas giant orbiting the star WASP-110. Its year lasts 3.78 Earth days. It was discovered in 2021 by the Transit method.
| Host star | WASP-110 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 896.8 light-years (275.0 pc) |
| Orbital period | 3.78 days |
| Eccentricity | 0.000 |
| Radius | 13.2 R⊕ · 1.18 R♃ |
| Mass | 155 M⊕ · 0.487 M♃ |
| Density | 0.397 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 0.889 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 1,158 K (885 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 279 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2021 |
| Discovered by | Paranal Observatory |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 279 times the light the Earth does, too hot to keep liquid water on its surface.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 12.76. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 46° N. South of latitude 46° S it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in July, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around the year 1129. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 16 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.