Exoplanet WASP 106 b

Name: WASP 106 b
Creator: Stellar Catalog
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Exoplanet WASP 106 b orbits star WASP 106 that lies 1172 light years away from the Sun. It weighs about 613.6 Earth masses and orbits its star much closer than Earth orbits Sun.

Sun distance
1172 light years

WASP 106 b

Exoplanet, gas giant

Star: WASP 106

Distance from the star: 0.0901 AU

Eccentricity: 0.023

Basic characteristic

Mass: 613.6 M Earth | 1.9307 M Jupiter

Size: 12.106 R Earth | 1.1 R Jupiter

Density: 1907 kg/m3 | 35 % Earth

Year of discovery: 2014 (transit)

Comparison to the Solar system planets

Mass: Jupiter (193.07 % Jupiter mass)

Size: Jupiter (108 % Jupiter radius)

Density: Neptune (116 % Neptune density)

Distance: Mercury (23 % Mercury distance)

Other designations of this exoplanet
b

Exoplanets around star WASP 106

Exoplanet WASP 106 b orbits star Class yellow star WASP 106, which has bigger mass than Sun. It is the only known exoplanet orbiting this star

WASP 106 b

| 0.09 AU

Star WASP 106

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