WISPIT 1 is 750 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this K4 V star; the first was found in 2025 by imaging (Paranal Observatory).
Fly there in 3DWISPIT 1 b was photographed directly: it is one of the few exoplanets seen as its own point of light rather than inferred from its star.
WISPIT 1 is one of 2 stars in its system. The position of the other star is not catalogued, so only WISPIT 1 and its planets are drawn.
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.
| Spectral type | K4 V |
| Surface temperature | 4,670 K |
| Mass | 0.72 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.1161 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.4785 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 13.182 |
| Age | about 0.0156 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 750.2 light-years (230.0 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 117.7986°, Dec -50.1377° |
| Constellation | Puppis |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WISPIT 1 b | 7323.8 years from Kepler’s law | 338.000 AU | 12.4 R⊕ estimated | 3305.4 M⊕ | Imaging, 2025 |
| WISPIT 1 c | 28692.7 years from Kepler’s law | 840.000 AU | 12.8 R⊕ estimated | 1684.5 M⊕ | Imaging, 2025 |
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.