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WASP-107b
Exoplanet WASP-107b is one of the lowest density planets known. While the planet is about the same size as Jupiter, it has only 12 percent of Jupiter’s mass. The exoplanet is about 200 light-years from Earth and takes less than six days to orbit its host star. Using infrared spec...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2018
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2018-26-4159-image
Exoplanet WASP-107b is one of the lowest density planets known. While the planet is about the same size as Jupiter, it has only 12 percent of Jupiter’s mass. The exoplanet is about 200 light-years from Earth and takes less than six days to orbit its host star. Using infrared spectroscopy, scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were able to find helium in the escaping atmosphere of the planet — the first detection of this element in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.
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ESA/Hubble, NASA, and M. KornmesserImage Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | WASP-107b |
| Object Description | Artist’s Impression of WASP-107b |
| R.A. Position | 12:33:33.0 |
| Dec. Position | -10:08:46 |
| Constellation | Virgo |
| Distance | WASP-107b is located about 200 light-years away from Earth. |
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