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Common exoplanet 17 EP

WASP-130 b

RA 203.1060° · Dec -42.4753° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
17 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 17

5 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

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. Too light to be solid rock and too heavy to be all gas: most likely a deep global ocean or a thick steamy envelope over a rocky core.

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 11.1 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around April — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 9.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
2.34
diameter km
127255.9788
discovery facility
SuperWASP-South
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2016
dist ly
561.8233
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
833
host star teff
5625
inclination
88.66
insolation
56.355
mag
11.104
mass earth
390.9309
name
WASP-130 b
orbital period days
11.551
radius earth
9.976
semi major au
0.1012
spect
G6
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About WASP-130 b

WASP-130 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 561.8 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 11.1, has spectral type G6 and has an equilibrium temperature near 833 K.

It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 11.1, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, WASP-130 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-130 b is a common exoplanet

WASP-130 b scores 17 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 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant and Orbits a Sun-like star — 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.