WASP-85 A is 463 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this G5 V star; the first was found in 2016 by transit (K2).
Fly there in 3DWASP-85 A b goes round its star every 2.66 days, 33 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
WASP-85 A is one of 2 stars in its system: the other is drawn where the Washington Double Star Catalog measures it on the sky.
| Spectral type | G5 V |
| Surface temperature | 6,112 K |
| Mass | 1.09 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.935 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.8483 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 10.72 |
| Distance from the Sun | 462.8 light-years (141.9 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 175.9080°, Dec 6.5638° |
| Constellation | Virgo |
WASP-85 C is a M2.5V star of magnitude 16.36, judged a true companion. In 2015 it was 140.2″ from WASP-85 A, at position angle 57° (Washington Double Star Catalog, 11436+0634 WSP 85 AC): 19,892 AU on the sky at this distance. The true distance can only be larger.
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WASP-85 A b | 2.66 days | 0.0390 AU | 13.899 R⊕ | 402.05 M⊕ | Transit, 2016 |
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 6,112 K, 0.85 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.86 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 463 years ago, around 1560.