# WASP-12 b artistic concept: visual basis

This image is an **artistic conceptual visualization**, not an observation, recovered image, simulation output, or scale diagram. It was generated with OpenAI's built-in image-generation tool on 2026-10-04 for this report.

The art direction uses a small number of evidence-informed cues:

- a close star–planet separation and severe stellar illumination, reflecting the 1.091-day orbit and ultra-hot equilibrium regime;
- a prolate silhouette aligned toward the star, representing the tidal deformation measured in phase-curve analyses;
- a dark atmosphere with a narrow incandescent limb, informed by the low optical albedo and high dayside temperature reported from CHEOPS/TESS/Spitzer analyses;
- a late-F-type white-gold host star.

The atmospheric colors, detailed circulation pattern, stellar surface, apparent sizes, orbital spacing, viewing angle and degree of elongation are interpretive. No molecular abundance, mass-loss morphology, or cloud map should be inferred from the image. Quantitative conclusions in this repository come only from the cited timing tables, light curves, models and scientific figures.

## Generation prompt summary

Wide NASA/ESA-style editorial scientific visualization of a subtly tidally distorted ultra-hot gas giant near its late-F host, with intense directional irradiation, a dark low-reflectivity atmosphere, a sharp terminator, restrained space background, and no text, rings, moons, solid surface or exaggerated tail.