List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 924

WASP-12 is a magnitude 11 yellow dwarf star located approximately 800 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. WASP-12 has a mass and radius similar to the Sun

NGC 5907 is a spiral galaxy located approximately 50 million light years from Earth. It has an anomalously low metallicity and few detectable giant stars being apparently composed almost entirely […]

PSR B1259-63 is a pulsar and member of an eclipsing binary star system with the blue B2e-class star SS 2883. The pair has an eccentric orbit that is inclined to […]

WASP-11/HAT-P-10 is a binary star consisting a magnitude-12 main-sequence orange dwarf star and M-dwarf with separation of 42 AU. The system is located about 400 light years away in the […]

WASP-10 is a star in the constellation Pegasus. The SuperWASP project has observed and classified this star as a variable star perhaps due to the eclipsing planet.

1185 Nikko is a main-belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1222.441 days (3.35 years).The asteroid was discovered on November 17 1927 by Japanese astronomer Okurō Oikawa at Tokyo Astronomical […]

WASP-8 is a magnitude 9.9 main sequence yellow dwarf star. It is reported to be a G type star of temperature 5600 K mass of 0.93 solar masses radius of […]

WASP-7 also identified as HD 197286 is a type F star located about 456 light years away in the constellation Microscopium. This star is a little larger and about 28% […]

WASP-7b is an extrasolar planet discovered in 2008. This 5-day period planet is slightly smaller than Jupiter roughly the same mass and more dense.

WASP-6 is a type-G yellow dwarf star located about 1000 light-years away in the Aquarius constellation. Dim at magnitude 12 it is visible through a moderate sized amateur telescope. The […]