Artist’s impression of WASP-107b
The exoplanet WASP-107b is a gas giant, orbiting a highly active K-type main sequence star. The star is about 200 light-years from Earth. Using spectroscopy, scientists were able to find helium in the escaping atmosphere of the planet — the first detection of this element in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.
Credit:ESA/Hubble, NASA, M. Kornmesser
About the Image
| Id: | heic1809a |
| Type: | Artwork |
| Release date: | 2 May 2018, 19:00 |
| Related releases: | heic1809 |
| Size: | 4152 x 2681 px |
About the Object
| Name: | WASP 107-b |
| Type: | Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Planetary System |
| Distance: | 200 light years |
| Category: | Exoplanets |
