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WASP-5 is a magnitude 12 G-type main-sequence star located about away in the Phoenix constellation. The star is likely older than the Sun, slightly enriched in heavy elements and is rotating rapidly, being spun up by the tides raised by the giant planet on a close orbit.

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Constellation
Phoenix
Child body
WASP-5b
Distance from Earth
297
Diameter
1310000
Radius
1.084
Mass
1
Variable-star type
eclipsing binary star
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surface gravity
22860
catalog code
UCAC4 244-187310
Commons category
WASP-5 b
effective temperature
5748
parallax
3.233
radial velocity
18.49
apparent magnitude
12.058
epoch
J2000.0
spectral class
G5
metallicity
0.196
luminosity
1.1563627
right ascension component of proper motion
7.406
declination component of proper motion
-16.072
right ascension
359.34898528008
declination
-41.27715102799999
age estimated by a dating method
3
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WASP-5 is a magnitude 12 G-type main-sequence star located about away in the Phoenix constellation. The star is likely older than the Sun, slightly enriched in heavy elements and is rotating rapidly, being spun up by the tides raised by the giant planet on a close orbit.

==Planetary system== This star has one exoplanet, WASP-5b, detected by the SuperWASP project in 2007.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WASP-5 b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.