WASP-36 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting WASP-36.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 15 times Earth's width.
- Mass
- About 750 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About 1,460 °C (2,660 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 1.5 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- 14.87 × Earth
- Mass
- 750.4 × Earth
- Density
- 1.26 g/cm³
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,733 K
- Starlight received
- Unknown
- Orbital period
- 1.537 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.02677 AU
Star
- Host star
- WASP-36
- Spectral class
- G — sun-like
- Surface temperature
- 5,959 K
- Radius
- 0.985 × Sun
- Mass
- 1.081 × Sun
- Age
- 1.4 billion years
System
- Distance from Earth
- 1,260 light-years (386.3 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 2
- Known planets
- 1
Discovery
- Year
- 2011
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- SuperWASP
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.