WASP-108

Planetary system · 844.0 light-years away

WASP-108 is 844 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this F9 star; the first was found in 2020 by transit (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)).

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Worth knowing

WASP-108 b goes round its star every 2.68 days, 33 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.

Where the archive gives only a period or only an orbit size, the other is worked out from Kepler’s third law with the star’s mass.

The star

Spectral typeF9
Surface temperature6,783 K
Mass1.167 solar masses
Radius1.34415 solar radii
Luminosity2.076 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude11.211
Ageabout 4.64 billion years
Distance from the Sun844.0 light-years (258.8 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 195.8282°, Dec -49.6398°
ConstellationCentaurus

Planets (1)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
WASP-108 b2.68 days0.0397 AU from Kepler’s law15.132 R⊕283.5 M⊕Transit, 2020

Values are the NASA Exoplanet Archive’s composite parameters. A radius marked estimated comes from a mass–radius relation; a mass marked minimum is M sin i. Planet sizes and colours in the 3D view are renderings: none of these worlds has been photographed as more than a point of light.

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