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WASP-18
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WASP-18 is a magnitude 9 star located away in the Phoenix constellation of the Southern Hemisphere. It has a mass of 1.29 solar masses.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- SB*
- Spectral type
- F6IV/V
- Distance
- 400 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.000013642864557628087
- Coordinates
- RA 24.3543° · Dec -45.6779°
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WASP-18 is a magnitude 9 star located away in the Phoenix constellation of the Southern Hemisphere. It has a mass of 1.29 solar masses.
The star, although similar to the Sun in terms of overall contents of heavy elements, is depleted in carbon. The carbon to oxygen molar ratio of 0.23 for WASP-18 is well below the solar ratio of 0.55.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WASP-18” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.