The planet WASP-161b is 1.14 times the radius of Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System. It is thus vastly bigger than our Earth.
WASP-161b is about 2 and a half times the mass of Jupiter. That means that it is slightly more dense than Jupiter.
WASP-161b orbits at a distance of 10.07 million km, taking 5.41 days to go round its orbit.
WASP-161b was chosen to be the planet named by the people of Morocco because it is the first planet to be announced in a paper led by scientists from Morocco! The lead-author of the discovery paper is Khalid Barkaoui of Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech.
Khalid Barkaoui used the TRAPPIST-North photometric telescope, located at the Oukaïmden Observatory in the Atlas Mountains, to observe transits of WASP-161b. Two TRAPPIST-North light curves are shown at right, along with light curves from TRAPPIST-South and the SPECULOOS-South observatory. Together they prove that WASP-161b really is a Jupiter-sized planet.
For more information visit http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/wasp-161_b/.