Cruinlagh
WASP-13 b
IAU name «Cruinlagh» — United Kingdom, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- WASP-13
- Distance from Earth
- 227.537 pc (≈ 742.1 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.675
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 114.4188
- Orbital period
- 4.353 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.05362 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,531 K
- Discovery method
- Transit
- Discovery year
- 2,009
- Discovery facility
- SuperWASP
- Host temperature
- 5,950 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 1.37
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.72
- Host brightness
- 10.424 mag
Source:NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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Host star
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 742 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1284 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 14 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 4.4 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.