Dilmun
WASP-121
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Distance from Earth
- 269.898 pc (≈ 880.3 light-years)
- Spectral type
- F6 V
- Surface temperature
- 6,628 K
- Designation
- WASP-121
- IAU name adopted
- 2023-08-01
- Name language
- Sumerian and Greek
- Name origin (IAU)
- Dilmun was the Sumerian name of an ancient civilisation of the Bahrain archipelago and the eastern Arabian Peninsula.
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 880 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1146 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 10.5 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Its IAU name «Dilmun» comes from Sumerian and Greek (IAU Working Group on Star Names).
Worked out from this object's official values.