WASP-88 b
ILLUSTRATION FROM EQUILIBRIUM TEMPERATURE 1770 K · RADIUS 1.46 JUPITER RADII · HOST STAR 6430 K
OVERVIEW
] EXOPLANETWASP-88 b is a in the constellation Indus, 1708 from Earth. It orbits WASP-88 at a mean distance of 0.06431 . It has a mass of 0.42 and a radius of 1.46 · 104 378 . It was discovered in 2014.
- WHAT IT IS
- Gas giant
- HOW FAR
- 1708
- HOW BIG
- 1.46 · 104 378
- ONE ORBIT TAKES
- 4.95
The light arriving now left it that long ago.
Its radius: half the width across.
One trip round WASP-88.
THE MODEL
] CATALOGUED RADIUSCALCULATED · NOT AN OBSERVATION · CATALOGUED RADIUS · EQUILIBRIUM TEMPERATURE 1770 K · RADIUS 1.46 JUPITER RADII · HOST STAR 6430 K
Drawn from the catalogued radius and from the same properties the picture at the top of this page uses, at the distance a flight to it would stop. Drag it, or use the arrow keys, to look from another direction. The stars behind are the 498,631 this catalogue holds real distances for, drawn from where the camera actually is — but every one of them is within 170 parsecs of the Sun and this object is much further out, so from here that whole neighbourhood is a knot in one direction and the rest of the sky is empty. The view you land on looks the other way; turn back towards the Sun and the stars come with it. What the readout says is which of the two the frame is pointed at. The emptiness is not a missing backdrop — it is the edge of what this catalogue has measured.
OBSERVING
] FROM WHERE YOU AREWhat it takes to see WASP-88 b for yourself. Everything in this part of the page is worked out for a real horizon, a real night and the equipment you say you have.
Say where you are, and this line says when WASP-88 b is worth going out for.
APPARENT PLACE
] EQUINOX J2026.8Where a telescope has to be pointed today, which is not quite where the catalogue records the object: the coordinate grid itself has turned since the year 2000 the catalogue is referred to.
- RIGHT ASCENSION
- DECLINATION
- GRID TURNED SINCE
- 19.8
- PROPER MOTION SINCE
- none published
Computed for 2026-10-11 00:00 UT. No proper motion is published for WASP-88 b, so nothing here moves the object; what separates this from the catalogued position above is the coordinate grid turning under it — about fifty arcseconds a year of precession since 2000, and the small nodding of the Earth’s axis on top of that. The catalogue it came from publishes no error for that position, so nothing here says how far this arithmetic can be trusted — the digits above are as precise as the place they were computed from, and no more. Aberration, parallax and refraction are left out. Aberration swings every position by up to twenty arcseconds over a year; parallax stays under an arcsecond for all but the nearest stars; refraction is nothing overhead and about half a degree at the horizon, where it answers to the air, not the sky. The same figure for any date.
CATALOG DATA
] 15 FIELDSThe raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.
WHAT KIND OF THING IT IS
What the object is in itself, rather than how it happens to look from here.
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1772
- Host star spectral type
- Host star temperature
- 6430 ±130
- Host star mass
- 0.94 ±0.42
- Host star radius
- 1.8 ±0.26
HOW BRIGHT IT IS
What the light adds up to, measured through one filter at a time. A magnitude is a brightness on a backwards scale — the smaller the number, the brighter the object.
- Host star apparent magnitude ()
THE ORBIT
The shape of the path, where the object sits on it, and the instant those figures were true of. An orbit is a fit to observations and drifts away from the real one either side of its epoch.
- Host star
- WASP-88
- Orbital period
- 4.954
- Eccentricity
- Inclination
- 88 ±1.4
- midpoint
- 2458248.2653
- Stars in system
- 1
- Planets in system
- 1
WHEN IT WAS FOUND
Who first saw it, from where, and by what method.
- Discovery method
- Discovered at
- SuperWASP
ALSO KNOWN AS
] 2 DESIGNATIONS- Exoplanet WASP-88 b
- Host star WASP-88
LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE
] 4 SERVICESEach link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.
- NASA Exoplanet ArchiveWASP-88 b
Every published parameter set for this planet side by side, with the paper each one came from.
- SIMBADWASP-88
Cross-identifications, measured values and the reference behind each of them. Keyed on the host star.
- ADSobject:"WASP-88"
Papers indexed against this object rather than against the string, newest first. Keyed on the host star.
- VizieR5″ around 309.5112 -48.4621
Every published table with a row at this position, searched by coordinates rather than by name.
CITE THIS PAGE
] DR1This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.
SpaceCatalog. WASP-88 b [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/wasp-88-b
@misc{spacecatalog_wasp-88-b,
author = {{SpaceCatalog}},
title = {{WASP-88 b}},
howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
year = {2026},
url = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/wasp-88-b},
note = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from NASA Exoplanet Archive (Planetary Systems Composite Parameters).}
}The values above were taken from NASA Exoplanet Archive (Planetary Systems Composite Parameters) — No licence stated; acknowledgement requested. Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.
That catalogue asks for this acknowledgement: This research has made use of the NASA Exoplanet Archive, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Exoplanet Exploration Program. Cite Christiansen et al. (2025), Planetary Science Journal (doi:10.3847/PSJ/ade3c2), and the literature reference given with each value.