WASP-101 is 656 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this F6 star; the first was found in 2014 by transit (SuperWASP).
Fly there in 3DWASP-101 b goes round its star every 3.59 days, 25 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Spectral type | F6 |
| Surface temperature | 6,380 K |
| Mass | 1.41 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.31 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 2.633 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 10.336 |
| Age | about 1.14 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 656.3 light-years (201.2 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 98.3511°, Dec -23.4861° |
| Constellation | Canis Major |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WASP-101 b | 3.59 days | 0.0506 AU | 16.029 R⊕ | 162.09 M⊕ | Transit, 2014 |
Values are the NASA Exoplanet Archive’s composite parameters. A radius marked estimated comes from a mass–radius relation; a mass marked minimum is M sin i. Planet sizes and colours in the 3D view are renderings: none of these worlds has been photographed as more than a point of light.
For a star of 6,380 K, 2.6 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 1.49 to 2.59 AU. None of its known planets orbits inside it. The zone says how much starlight arrives, not whether a planet has water or air. The edges follow Kopparapu et al. (2014), as the 3D view draws them.
The light you see left 656 years ago, around 1370.