Exoplanet · gas giant
WTS-1 b
WTS-1 b is a gas giant orbiting the star WTS-1. Its year lasts 3.35 Earth days. It was discovered in 2012 by the Transit method.
| Host star | WTS-1 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 7,652 light-years (2,346 pc) |
| Orbital period | 3.35 days |
| Orbital radius | 0.047 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.100 |
| Radius | 16.7 R⊕ · 1.49 R♃ |
| Mass | 1,270 M⊕ · 4.01 M♃ |
| Density | 1.61 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 4.57 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 1,500 K (1,227 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 555 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2012 |
| Discovered by | United Kingdom Infrared Telescope |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 555 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 13° across: 24 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 16.64. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 54° S. North of latitude 54° N 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 7,652 years ago. At that time the first farming villages were being founded; there was no writing yet. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 136 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.