WASP-6 is 643 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this 5,438 K star; the first was found in 2009 by transit (SuperWASP).
Fly there in 3DWASP-6 b goes round its star every 3.36 days, 26 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Surface temperature | 5,438 K |
| Mass | 0.854 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.79 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.505 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 11.907 |
| Age | about 3.2 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 642.9 light-years (197.1 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 348.1571°, Dec -22.6741° |
| Constellation | Aquarius |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WASP-6 b | 3.36 days | 0.0422 AU | 12.543 R⊕ | 148.43 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 5,438 K, 0.51 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 643 years ago, around 1380.