WASP-79 is 805 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this F5 star; the first was found in 2012 by transit (SuperWASP).
Fly there in 3DWASP-79 b goes round its star every 3.66 days, 24 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Spectral type | F5 |
| Surface temperature | 6,600 K |
| Mass | 1.39 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.51 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 4.618 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 10.044 |
| Age | about 1.4 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 804.6 light-years (246.7 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 66.3709°, Dec -30.6004° |
| Constellation | Eridanus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WASP-79 b | 3.66 days | 0.0519 AU | 17.15 R⊕ | 270.15 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 6,600 K, 4.6 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 1.94 to 3.37 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 805 years ago, around 1220.