Iztok
WASP-38 b
IAU name «Iztok» — Slovenia, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- WASP-38
- Distance from Earth
- 136.24 pc (≈ 444.4 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.7871
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 1,093.3352
- Orbital period
- 6.8719 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.07522 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.03
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,250 K
- Discovery method
- Transit
- Discovery year
- 2,010
- Discovery facility
- SuperWASP
- Host spectral type
- F8 V
- Host temperature
- 6,180 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 1.52
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1.76
- Host brightness
- 9.391 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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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 444 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1582 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 14 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 6.9 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.