WASP-12
WASP-12 is a magnitude 11 yellow dwarf star located approximately 1410 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. WASP-12 has a mass and radius similar to the Sun. Its planet WASP-12b has a retrograde orbit around WASP-12. Two red dwarf companions have been detected around WASP-12. Both have spectral types of M3V and are only 38% and 37% as massive as the Sun, respectively.In 2008, the extrasolar planet WASP-12b was discovered orbiting WASP-12 by the transit method. Its high carbon-to-oxygen ratio indicates that rocky planets that might have formed in the star system; it may be a carbon planet. It is subject to intensive photo-evaporation, and may be completely destroyed within one billion years from now.
No indications of other planets in system was found as in 2015.
