Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
WASP-156 b
A confirmed world orbiting WASP-156, 398.1 light-years away.
A Neptune-class world
6.15 Earth radii, in the ice-giant size range. At only 42.0 Earth masses for that size, it must be substantially gas or volatile ices: puffy, not rocky.
The orbit
Its year, one full orbit, takes just 3.8 Earth days.
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 661 °C. Hotter than Venus's surface. It receives 150.0 times the starlight Earth gets.
Its sun
Its star is an orange K-type (5,036 K), K3 V: cooler and longer-lived than the Sun, a class some astronomers consider ideal for habitability.
How far is that, really?
At 398 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1627. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 7,043,882 years to get there.
How we found it
It was found by the transit method: the planet crosses its star's face on schedule, dimming it by a tiny, repeating fraction. The dip's depth gives the planet's size. The discovery was announced in 2017 from SuperWASP.
Everything above is computed from the archive’s measured values for this planet. Where a quantity is missing, the statement is omitted rather than guessed.
About this record
The measured values come from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, and any missing value has not been determined yet; the Atlas never fills gaps with guesses. More standout worlds: Proxima b, TRAPPIST-1e, K2-18 b, 55 Cancri e, and the detection methods that found them all.