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WASP-59 b

378.13 light-years

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Discovery
Transit · 2012
Radius
8.687 (+0.762 / −0.762) Earth radii
Mass
274.276 (+14.302 / −14.302) Earth masses
Orbital period
7.9196 (+1 × 10⁻⁵ / −1 × 10⁻⁵) days
Semi-major axis
0.0697 (+1.1 × 10⁻³ / −1.1 × 10⁻³) AU
Equilibrium temperature
670 (+35 / −35) 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