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Epic exoplanet 55 EP

WASP-1 b

RA 5.1670° · Dec 31.9900° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
55 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Lava world +14
  • Two suns in its sky +12
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Blasted by starlight +4
Total score 55

23 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Lava world · +14
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Blasted by starlight · +4
  • Two suns in its sky · +12

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Lava world. Its surface is almost certainly an ocean of molten rock, kept liquid by the star it hugs.

Hard to believe

  • It would float. It is less dense than water. Drop it in a big enough ocean and the whole world would bob on the surface.

What it actually is

  • Hugging its star. It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.
  • What it is made of. Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 11.3 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around September — that's when to go looking.

Properties

density gcc
0.348
diameter km
212046.3126
discovery facility
SuperWASP
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2007
dist ly
1282.0279
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
1812
host star teff
6110
inclination
90
insolation
2121.5175
mag
11.308
mass earth
271.415
multi star system
yes
name
WASP-1 b
orbital period days
2.5199
radius earth
16.623
semi major au
0.0389
spect
F7 V
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
2
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About WASP-1 b

WASP-1 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 1,282 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 11.31, has spectral type F7 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 1,812 K.

Its surface is almost certainly an ocean of molten rock, kept liquid by the star it hugs.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 11.31, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, WASP-1 b is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why WASP-1 b is an epic exoplanet

WASP-1 b scores 55 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 23 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Gas giant, Lava world, Tidally locked, Blasted by starlight and Two suns in its sky — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.