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Transit · 2017

WASP-105 b

This world receives 167× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 7.87 days; the light you see left it 552 years ago.

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Size
0.96 × Jupiter 
A year
7.87 days0.075 AU
Temperature
627 °C900 K

About this world

WASP-105 b is a gas giant orbiting WASP-105, an orange dwarf (type K2) 552 light-years from Earth. It is about 0.96 times the size of Jupiter and holds 1.8 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 7.87 days at 0.075 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 900 K (627 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2017 by transit with SuperWASP-South. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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