WASP-17 is 1,324 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this F4 star; the first was found in 2009 by transit (SuperWASP).
Fly there in 3DWASP-17 b goes round its star every 3.74 days, 24 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Spectral type | F4 |
| Surface temperature | 6,550 K |
| Mass | 2.28 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.49 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 4.099 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 11.588 |
| Age | about 2.65 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 1323.9 light-years (405.9 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 239.9622°, Dec -28.0618° |
| Constellation | Scorpius |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WASP-17 b | 3.74 days | 0.0515 AU | 20.961 R⊕ | 247.91 M⊕ | Transit, 2009 |
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 6,550 K, 4.1 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 1.84 to 3.19 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 1,324 years ago, around AD 700.