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WASP-96b
Sign in to saveWASP-96b is a gas giant exoplanet. Its mass is 0.48 times that of Jupiter. It is 0.0453 AU from the class G star WASP-96, which it orbits every 3.4 days. It is about 1,140 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered in 2013 by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP).
Key facts
- Planet.extrasolarplanet
- yes
- Planet.name
- WASP-96b
- Planet.image
- File:Exoplanet WASP-96 b (NIRISS Transit Light Curve) (weic2206b).jpeg
- Planet.caption
- Light curve of star WASP-96 during transit of WASP-96b, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.discoverer
- Hellier et al. (WASP)
- Planet.discovered
- October 2013
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit
- Planet.eccentricity
- <0.11
- Planet.single_temperature
- 1285 K
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WASP-96b is a gas giant exoplanet. Its mass is 0.48 times that of Jupiter. It is 0.0453 AU from the class G star WASP-96, which it orbits every 3.4 days. It is about 1,140 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered in 2013 by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP).
WASP-96b orbits its Sun-like star WASP-96 every 3.4 Earth days at a distance just one-ninth of the distance between Mercury and the Sun.