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WASP-127b
WASP-127 is an old Stellar classification#Class G, G5 type star that is around 9.7 billion years old and located 524 light years from Earth in the Constellation of Sextans. It has a mass of 0.9 solar masses, a radius of 1.3 solar radii and a temperature of 5842 Kelvin. There is so far one planet detected, a low density sub-Saturn type. Stellar system WASP-127 is a G5-type star, less massive but with a radius about 30% larger than the Sun's. It has reached the end of its main sequence phase at 9.7 billion years old and is transitioning into its subgiant phase. The star is photometrically stable and slowly rotating. Planetary system Currently, one planet is known to orbit WASP-127, which is described as either a super-Neptune or a sub-Saturn planet with a mass 16% that of Jupiter and a heavily inflated radius 1.3 times that of Jupiter. This results in it being one of the least dense planets known. It orbits its star in just over 4 days. WASP-127b Discovery WASP-127b, along ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wide Angle Search For Planets
WASP or Wide Angle Search for Planets is an international consortium of several academic organisations performing an ultra-wide angle search for exoplanets using transit photometry. The array of robotic telescopes aims to Astronomical survey, survey the entire sky, simultaneously monitoring many thousands of stars at an apparent visual magnitude from about 7 to 13. WASP is the detection program composed of the Isaac Newton Group, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, IAC and six universities from the United Kingdom. The two continuously operating, robotic observatories cover the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, respectively. SuperWASP-North is at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the mountain of that name which dominates La Palma in the Canary Islands. WASP-South is at the South African Astronomical Observatory, Sutherland, South Africa, Sutherland in the arid Roggeveld Mountains of South Africa. These use eight wide-angle cameras that simultaneously monitor the sky for pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |