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Transit · 2015

WASP-89 b

This world receives 279× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 3.36 days; the light you see left it 949 years ago.

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Size
1 × Jupiter 
A year
3.36 days0.0427 AU
Temperature
847 °C1,120 K

About this world

WASP-89 b is a gas giant orbiting WASP-89, an orange dwarf (type K3) 949 light-years from Earth. It is about 1 times the size of Jupiter and holds 5.9 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 3.36 days at 0.043 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,120 K (847 °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 2015 by transit with SuperWASP. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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