Wasp-148 is a yellow star some 800 light-years away in the constellation Hercules. Two planets were found orbiting in, dubbed WASP-148b and c. (WASP is an international consortium known as Wide Area Search for Planets). The planets are both gas giants. WASP-148b, which is about the size and mass of Saturn, takes about 8.8 days to circle its host star while the orbital period for WASP-148c, thought to have a mass half that of Jupiter, is around 34.5 days. | |
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