About WASP-148 c
WASP-148 c is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 803.5 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 590 K, spans roughly 13.9 Earth radii and weighs about 124.59 Earth masses.
So low-density it would float on water.
Uncommon exoplanet 27 EP
WASP-148 c
RA 254.1305° · Dec 44.3025° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesUncommon 33 pts → Rare
- Puffy low-density world +12
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Gas giant +4
Total score 27
6 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Gas giant · +4
- Puffy low-density world · +12
- Multi-planet system · +6
Trivia
What makes it special
- Cotton-candy planet. So low-density it would float on water.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 14.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.3 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 8035 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 803 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1223.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1607 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 34.5 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 13.9× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 2686 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 125× Earth's mass — about 0.4 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 0.6× your Earth weight standing here.
- Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
- Temperature. A scorching 317°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Haute-Provence Observatory using the radial velocity method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 0.255
- discovery facility
- Haute-Provence Observatory
- discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- dist ly
- 803.4951
- eccentricity
- 0.1809
- eq temp k
- 590
- insolation
- 17.377
- mass earth
- 124.5887
- name
- WASP-148 c
- orbital period days
- 34.524
- radius earth
- 13.9
- sys num planets
- 2
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, WASP-148 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-148 c is an uncommon exoplanet
WASP-148 c scores 27 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Puffy low-density world and Multi-planet system — 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.