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WASP-78 b

2,460.06 light-years

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Discovery
Transit · 2012
Radius
21.6334 (+5.0441 / −5.0441) Earth radii
Mass
352.7913 (+171.6282 / −171.6282) Earth masses
Orbital period
2.1752 (+5 × 10⁻⁶ / −5 × 10⁻⁶) days
Semi-major axis
0.0349 (+7 × 10⁻⁴ / −7.6 × 10⁻⁴) AU
Equilibrium temperature
2,469.7 (+53.8 / −55.9) K
Mass provenance
Mass

Measurements may come from different studies and need not form one self-consistent model. “Msini” is a minimum mass; a mass inferred from radius is an estimate. Equilibrium temperature is a model estimate, not a measured surface temperature or evidence of habitability.

NASA archive record and references ↗

Snapshot retrieved: 2026-10-11T04:15:07.688253+00:00