WTS-2 is 3,362 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this K2 V star; the first was found in 2014 by transit (United Kingdom Infrared Telescope).
Fly there in 3DWTS-2 b goes round its star every 24.4 hours, 86 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Spectral type | K2 V |
| Surface temperature | 5,000 K |
| Mass | 0.82 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.752 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 0.5151 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 15.954 |
| Age | about 0.6 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 3361.9 light-years (1030.8 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 293.7328°, Dec 36.8155° |
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WTS-2 b | 24.4 hours | 0.0186 AU | 15.278 R⊕ | 355.97 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 5,000 K, 0.52 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 0.71 to 1.29 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 3,362 years ago, around 1300 BC.