About this world
WASP-59 b is a Neptune-like planet orbiting WASP-59, an orange dwarf (type K5V) 378 light-years from Earth. It is about 0.77 times the size of Jupiter and holds 0.86 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 7.92 days at 0.07 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 670 K (397 °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 2012 by transit with SuperWASP. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.