Pollera
WASP-79 b
IAU name «Pollera» — Panama, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- WASP-79
- Distance from Earth
- 246.69 pc (≈ 804.6 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 17.1497
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 270.1541
- Orbital period
- 3.6624 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.0519 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,716.2 K
- Discovery method
- Transit
- Discovery year
- 2,012
- Discovery facility
- SuperWASP
- Host spectral type
- F5
- Host temperature
- 6,600 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 1.51
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1.39
- Host brightness
- 10.044 mag
Source:NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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Host star
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 805 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1221 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 17 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 3.7 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.