About WASP-59 b
WASP-59 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 378.1 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 670 K, spans roughly 8.69 Earth radii and weighs about 274.28 Earth masses.
About 8.7× the width of Earth.
Trash exoplanet 9 EP
WASP-59 b
RA 349.6230° · Dec 24.8893° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Gas giant +4
Total score 9
6 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Gas giant · +4
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 6.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 590.4 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 3781 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 378 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1648.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 756 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 7.9 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 8.7× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 656 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 274× Earth's mass — about 0.9 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 3.6× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. A scorching 397°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by SuperWASP using the transit method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 2.4
- discovery facility
- SuperWASP
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 378.1322
- eccentricity
- 0.1
- eq temp k
- 670
- insolation
- 38.0328
- mass earth
- 274.276
- name
- WASP-59 b
- orbital period days
- 7.9196
- radius earth
- 8.687
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, WASP-59 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-59 b is a trash exoplanet
WASP-59 b scores 9 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet and Gas giant — 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.