Wattle
WASP-19
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Distance from Earth
- 268.325 pc (≈ 875.2 light-years)
- Spectral type
- G8 V
- Surface temperature
- 5,616 K
- Designation
- WASP-19
- IAU name adopted
- 2023-08-01
- Name language
- English
- Name origin (IAU)
- Wattle is a genus of approximately 1000 species of shrubs and trees. The Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha), whose colour alludes to the G-type star WASP-19, is native to Australia and is the official floral emblem of Australia.
Source:NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 875 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1151 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 12.2 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Its IAU name «Wattle» comes from English (IAU Working Group on Star Names).
Worked out from this object's official values.