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WASP-17, also named Dìwö, is an F-type main sequence star approximately 1,310 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. It hosts the planet WASP-17b.

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WASP-17, also named Dìwö, is an F-type main sequence star approximately 1,310 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. It hosts the planet WASP-17b.

The star, although similar to the Sun in terms of overall contents of heavy elements, is depleted of carbon. The carbon to oxygen molar ratio of 0.18 for WASP-17 is well below the solar ratio of 0.55.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dìwö” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.