About WASP-126 c
WASP-126 c is a common exoplanet. It lies about 706.2 light-years from Earth, spans roughly 9.38 Earth radii, weighs about 64.2 Earth masses and completes an orbit every 7.63 days.
One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.
Common exoplanet 19 EP
WASP-126 c
RA 63.3747° · Dec -69.2266° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesCommon 24 pts → Uncommon
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Gas giant +4
- Found by TESS +4
Total score 19
5 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Gas giant · +4
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Found by TESS · +4
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 12.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.1 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 7062 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 706 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1320.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1412 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 7.6 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 9.4× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 825 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 64.2× Earth's mass — about 0.2 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 0.7× your Earth weight standing here.
- Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) using the transit timing variations method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 0.427
- discovery facility
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
- discovery method
- Transit Timing Variations
- dist ly
- 706.2125
- eccentricity
- 0.05
- mass earth
- 64.2
- name
- WASP-126 c
- orbital period days
- 7.63
- radius earth
- 9.38
- sys num planets
- 2
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, WASP-126 c 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-126 c is a common exoplanet
WASP-126 c scores 19 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Multi-planet system and Found by TESS — 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.