Fastest wind measured on a planet
Record
33,000 km/h
20,505 mph
- Record holder
- WASP-127b
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What to remember
On WASP-127b, a planet beyond the Solar System, a jetstream wind blows at 33,000 km/h, or 9,200 m/s. It is the fastest wind ever measured on a planet.
WASP-127b is a low-density planet of the sub-Saturn type. It orbits WASP-127, an old G5-type star around 9.7 billion years old, located 524 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Sextans. The star has a mass of 0.9 solar masses, a radius of 1.3 solar radii and a temperature of 5,842 kelvin.
The study of exoplanets is one of the most dynamic fields of science, and its extremes may shift as new discoveries are made.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of exoplanet extremes” (revision used 1381113026). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: ESO/L. Calçada, Photo licensed under CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
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