Common exoplanet 15 EP

WASP-132 b

RA 217.6092° · Dec -46.1595° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

15 pts · Common

Common 24 pts → Uncommon

Multi-planet system +6
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 15

9 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Multi-planet system · +6

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 625.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 4009 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 401 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1625.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 802 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 7.1 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 10.1× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 1030 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 136× Earth's mass — about 0.4 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.3× your Earth weight standing here.
Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
Temperature. A scorching 409°C on average.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by SuperWASP-South using the transit method.

Cosmic context

Crowded system. One of at least 3 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc: 0.73
discovery facility: SuperWASP-South
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 400.8783
eccentricity: 0.0163
eq temp k: 682
insolation: 58.5
mass earth: 136.0306
name: WASP-132 b
orbital period days: 7.1335
radius earth: 10.0993
sys num planets: 3

About WASP-132 b

WASP-132 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 400.9 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 682 K, spans roughly 10.1 Earth radii and weighs about 136.03 Earth masses.

One of at least 3 planets orbiting its star.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, WASP-132 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-132 b is a common exoplanet

WASP-132 b scores 15 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant 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.