Exoplanet · gas giant
WASP-117 b
WASP-117 b is a gas giant orbiting the star WASP-117. Its year lasts 10 Earth days. It was discovered in 2014 by the Transit method.
| Host star | WASP-117 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 515.2 light-years (158.0 pc) |
| Orbital period | 10 days |
| Orbital radius | 0.0946 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.300 |
| Radius | 11.9 R⊕ · 1.06 R♃ |
| Mass | 95.3 M⊕ · 0.3 M♃ |
| Density | 0.345 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 0.675 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 1,001 K (728 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 706 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2014 |
| Discovered by | SuperWASP |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 706 times the light the Earth does, too hot to keep liquid water on its surface.
Its star in the sky
In the planet's sky its star is a disc 6.9° across: 13 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 10.21. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 40° N. South of latitude 40° S it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in October, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around the year 1511. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 9.1 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.