WASP-98 is 919 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this G7 star; the first was found in 2014 by transit (SuperWASP).
Fly there in 3DWASP-98 b goes round its star every 2.96 days, 30 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
WASP-98 is one of 2 stars in its system. The position of the other star is not catalogued, so only WASP-98 and its planets are drawn.
| Spectral type | G7 |
| Surface temperature | 5,473 K |
| Mass | 0.809 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.741 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.4387 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 13.252 |
| Age | about 2.7 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 918.9 light-years (281.7 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 58.4290°, Dec -34.3283° |
| Constellation | Eridanus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WASP-98 b | 2.96 days | 0.0376 AU | 12.823 R⊕ | 293.04 M⊕ | Transit, 2014 |
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 5,473 K, 0.44 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.64 to 1.14 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 919 years ago, around 1110.