WASP-104 is 606 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this G8 star; the first was found in 2014 by transit (SuperWASP).
Fly there in 3DWASP-104 b goes round its star every 42.1 hours, 50 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
WASP-104 is one of 2 stars in its system. The position of the other star is not catalogued, so only WASP-104 and its planets are drawn.
| Spectral type | G8 |
| Surface temperature | 5,475 K |
| Mass | 1.076 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.963 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.6462 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 11.779 |
| Age | about 3 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 606.4 light-years (185.9 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 160.6024°, Dec 7.4351° |
| Constellation | Leo |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WASP-104 b | 42.1 hours | 0.0292 AU | 12.745 R⊕ | 404.26 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 5,475 K, 0.65 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.78 to 1.38 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 606 years ago, around 1420.