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Radial velocity · 2014

WASP-94 B b

This world receives 2,000× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 2.01 days; the light you see left it 681 years ago.

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Size
1.3 × Jupiterestimated
A year
2.01 days0.0335 AU
Temperature
1,576 °C1,849 K

About this world

WASP-94 B b is a gas giant orbiting WASP-94 B, a yellow-white F-type star (type F9) 681 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.3 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 0.62 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 2.01 days at 0.034 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,849 K (1,576 °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 2014 by radial velocity with SuperWASP. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.

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