WASP-46 is 1,224 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this G6 V star; the first was found in 2011 by transit (SuperWASP).
Fly there in 3DWASP-46 b goes round its star every 34.3 hours, 62 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Spectral type | G6 V |
| Surface temperature | 5,600 K |
| Mass | 0.828 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.858 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.7742 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 13.043 |
| Age | about 9.6 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 1224.1 light-years (375.3 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 318.7370°, Dec -55.8719° |
| Constellation | Indus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WASP-46 b | 34.3 hours | 0.0233 AU | 13.159 R⊕ | 607.06 M⊕ | Transit, 2011 |
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 5,600 K, 0.77 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.85 to 1.50 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 1,224 years ago, around AD 800.