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Transit · 2025

WASP-155 b

This world receives 771× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 3.11 days; the light you see left it 1.3 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Jupiter 
A year
3.11 days0.043 AU
Temperature
1,195 °C1,468 K

About this world

WASP-155 b is a gas giant orbiting WASP-155, a yellow, Sun-like star 1.3 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Jupiter and holds 0.87 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 3.11 days at 0.043 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,468 K (1,195 °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 2025 by transit with SuperWASP. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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