WASP-7 is 529 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this 6,400 K star; the first was found in 2008 by transit (SuperWASP).
Fly there in 3DWASP-7 b goes round its star every 4.95 days, 18 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Surface temperature | 6,400 K |
| Mass | 1.276 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.432 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 3.442 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 9.504 |
| Age | about 2.4 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 529.4 light-years (162.3 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 311.0428°, Dec -39.2255° |
| Constellation | Microscopium |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WASP-7 b | 4.95 days | 0.0617 AU | 14.908 R⊕ | 305.12 M⊕ | Transit, 2008 |
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 6,400 K, 3.4 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 1.70 to 2.96 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 529 years ago, around 1500.