WASP-2 is 500 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this K1 star; the first was found in 2007 by transit (SuperWASP).
Fly there in 3DWASP-2 b goes round its star every 2.15 days, 41 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
WASP-2 is one of 2 stars in its system. The position of the other star is not catalogued, so only WASP-2 and its planets are drawn.
| Spectral type | K1 |
| Surface temperature | 5,180 K |
| Mass | 0.895 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.866 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.486 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 11.728 |
| Age | about 8.2 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 499.8 light-years (153.2 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 307.7256°, Dec 6.4293° |
| Constellation | Delphinus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WASP-2 b | 2.15 days | 0.0314 AU | 12.117 R⊕ | 295.9 M⊕ | Transit, 2007 |
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 5,180 K, 0.49 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.69 to 1.23 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 500 years ago, around 1530.