WASP-72 is 1,418 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this F7 star; the first was found in 2012 by transit (SuperWASP).
Fly there in 3DWASP-72 b goes round its star every 2.22 days, 40 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Spectral type | F7 |
| Surface temperature | 6,250 K |
| Mass | 2.78 solar masses |
| Radius | 2.18 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 5.297 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 10.868 |
| Age | about 3.2 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 1418.0 light-years (434.8 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 41.0401°, Dec -30.1691° |
| Constellation | Fornax |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WASP-72 b | 2.22 days | 0.0371 AU | 14.46 R⊕ | 731.01 M⊕ | Transit, 2012 |
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 6,250 K, 5.3 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 2.13 to 3.71 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 1,418 years ago, around AD 610.