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x Upsilon Andromedae b Upsilon Andromedae b Jun 1996 Upsilon Andromedae Andromeda
Upsilon Andromedae b, occasionally referred to as Upsilon Andromedae Ab (to distinguish it from the red dwarf star Upsilon Andromedae B), is an extrasolar planet approximately 44 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Andromeda (the...
x WASP-1 b ExtraPlanetWASP-1b Sep 25, 2006 WASP-1 Andromeda
WASP-1b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star WASP-1 located over 1000 light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. In recognition of the regional support given to the project on La Palma, the discoverers gave the planet the alternative...
x VB 10b gasgiant.jpg May 2009 VB 10 Aquila
In May of 2009 astronomers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California announced the astrometric discovery of a planet, VB 10b, using the 200 in (5.1 m) Hale telescope at the Palomar Observatory. If confirmed, the extrasolar planet...
x HD 12661 c     HD 12661 Aries
HD 12661 c is a gas giant one and a half times the mass of Jupiter orbiting around HD 12661. It has an eccentric orbit which briefly brings it close to the outer edge of the star's habitable zone.
x WASP-12 b   Dec 18, 2008 WASP-12 Auriga
WASP-12 b is an extrasolar planet discovered in 2008.
x HAT-P-9b     HAT-P-9 Auriga
HAT-P-9b is an extrasolar planet approximately 1560 light years away in the constellation Auriga. This planet was found by the transit method on June 26, 2008. It has mass 78% that of Jupiter and radius 140% that of Jupiter. As for all the...
x HD 49674 b   2004 HD 49674 Auriga
HD 49674 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 134 light-years away in the constellation of Auriga, orbiting the star HD 49674. This planet was discovered orbiting the star in 2002. At the time of discovery, it was the least massive...
x HD 45350 b     HD 45350 Auriga
HD 45350 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 160 light-years away in the constellation of Auriga. It has a minimum mass about 1.79 times that of Jupiter. The mean distance of the planet from the star is more than the distance between...
x HD 43691 b     HD 43691 Auriga
HD 43691 b is a massive jovian planet located approximately 304 light-years away in the constellation of Auriga. Because the inclination is unknown, only the minimum mass is known. The planet orbits close to the star, closer than Mercury to the Sun.
x HD 40979 b   2002   Auriga
HD 40979 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 40979, was detected from the Lick and Keck observatories and photometric observations at Fairborn Observatory reveal low-amplitude brightness variations in HD 40979. It is thought to be a large...
x Tau Boötis Ab 2001-38-a-full     Boötes
Tau Boötis b, occasionally catalogued as Tau Boötis Ab, is an extrasolar planet approximately 50 light-years away around the primary star of the Tau Boötis system in the constellation of Boötes. Announced in 1996 by Geoffrey Marcy and R. Paul Butler...
x HD 33564 b     HD 33564 Camelopardalis
HD 33564 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 68 light-years away in the constellation of Camelopardalis. This planet orbits around F6V star HD 33564. It is an extremely massive and dense gas giant orbiting in the parent star’s habitable...
x 55 Cnc b     55 Cancri A Cancer  
x 55 Cnc c       Cancer  
x 55 Cnc d       Cancer  
x HD 17156 b     HD 17156 Cassiopeia
HD 17156b is an exoplanet orbiting the star HD 17156. It is a superjovian planet slightly smaller than Jupiter but slightly larger than Saturn in a so-called "torched orbit". This highly-eccentric three-week orbit takes it approximately 0.0523 AU of...
x HD 7924 b PlanetQuest-HD7924b   HD 7924 Cassiopeia
HD 7924 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 54 light years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia, orbiting the 7th magnitude K-type main sequence (slightly metal poor) star HD 7924. It was published on January 28, 2009 and is the...
x 2M1207 b Infrared image of 2M1207 (blueish) and companion planet   2M1207 Centaurus
2M1207 b is a planetary mass object orbiting the brown dwarf 2M1207, in the constellation Centaurus, approximately 170 light-years from Earth. Notable as one of the first candidate extrasolar planets to be directly observed (by infrared imaging), it...
x Gamma Cephei Ab Gamma Cephei b   Gamma Cephei Cepheus
Gamma Cephei Ab is an extrasolar planet approximately 45 light-year away in the constellation of Cepheus (the King). The planet was confirmed to orbit Gamma Cephei in 2002, but was suspected to be a planet around 1988 (making this planet the first...
x HD 114762 b     HD 114762 Coma Berenices
HD 114762 b is an extrasolar planet a brown dwarf or larger, approximately 132 light years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. This optically undetected companion to the late F-type star HD 114762 was discovered in 1989 by David Latham and...
x BD-10°3166 b     BD-10°3166 Crater
BD-10°3166 b is an extrasolar planet approximately 218 light-years away in the constellation of Crater. This planet is a so-called "hot Jupiter", a planet that orbits its parent star in a very close orbit. Distance to the star is less than 1/20th...
x 16 Cygni B b 16 Cygni sunset 1996 16 Cygni B Cygnus
16 Cygni Bb is an extrasolar planet approximately 70 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus. The planet was discovered orbiting the sun-like star 16 Cygni B, one of two solar-mass components of the triple star system 16 Cygni. It makes one...
x HAT-P-7 b HAT-P-7 b compared to Jupiter 2008 GSC 03547-01402 Cygnus
HAT-P-7b is an extrasolar planet discovered in 2008. It orbits very close to its parent star GSC 03547-01402 and is larger than Jupiter. Due to the extreme heat it receives from its star, the dayside temperature is predicted to be 2730−100 K. The...
x HAT-P-11b     HAT-P-11 Cygnus
HAT-P-11b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HAT-P-11. This planet was discovered by the transit method and submitted for publication on January 2, 2009. This planet is located approximately 123 light-years (38 pc) away in the constellation...
x 18 Delphini b   Feb 19, 2008 18 Delphini Delphinus
18 Delphini b is a very massive and dense planet approximately 238 light-years away in the constellation of Delphinus. The planet orbits the yellow giant star 18 Delphini. The planet has a minimum mass of 10.3 MJ and a period of 993 days. This...
x TrES-2 b Kepler First Light Detail TrES-2   GSC 03549-02811 Draco
TrES-2 is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star GSC 03549-02811 located 750 light years away. The planet's mass and radius indicate that it is a gas giant with a similar bulk composition to Jupiter. Unlike Jupiter, but similar to many other planets...
x Iota Draconis b /wikipedia/images/commons_id/11607119     Draco
Iota Draconis b was discovered in 2002 during a radial velocity study of K-class giant stars and was the first planet discovered orbiting a giant star. It is in an eccentric orbit, which aided its detection as giant stars have pulsations which can...
x 42 Draconis b   Mar 20, 2009 42 Draconis Draco
42 Draconis b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 317 light years away in the constellation of Draco, orbiting the 5th magnitude K-type giant star 42 Draconis. This planet is so-called super-Jupiter because its minimum mass is nearly four...
x HD 28185 b Hd28185b     Eridanus
HD 28185 b is an extrasolar planet approximately 138 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Eridanus. The planet was discovered orbiting the Sun-like star HD 28185 in April 2001 as a part of the CORALIE survey for southern extrasolar...
x Epsilon Eridani b Epsilon Eridani b   Epsilon Eridani Eridanus
Epsilon Eridani b, often catalogued as HD 22049 b, is an extrasolar planet approximately 10 light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus (the River). Orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, this makes the Epsilon Eridani system the closest to the...
x HD 50554 b       Gemini  
x HD 59686 b       Gemini  
x HD 62509 b     Pollux Gemini  
x HD 149026 b HD149026Corecomparison     Hercules
HD 149026 b is an extrasolar planet approximately 257 light-years away in the constellation of Hercules. The planet was discovered after it transited its parent star, HD 149026. It is notable for the presence of an exceptionally large planetary core...
x 14 Herculis b   1998 14 Herculis Hercules
14 Herculis b is an extrasolar planet approximately 59 light-years away in the constellation of Hercules. The planet was found orbiting the star 14 Herculis, with a mass that would likely make the planet a Jovian planet roughly the same size as...
x HD 154345 b HD154345B Mar 2006 HD 154345 Hercules
HD 154345 b, is a Jupiter-sized extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 154345. Wright et al. discovered the planet in March 2006 using the radial velocity method to detect small wobbling movement in the star caused by the gravity of the planet. The...
x HD 74156 d     HD 74156 Hydra  
x HD 74156 b     HD 74156 Hydra  
x HD 74156 c     HD 74156 Hydra  
x Gliese 436 b Gliese-436-b   Gliese 436 Leo
Gliese 436 b (pronounced /ˈɡliːzə/), or GJ 436 b, is a Neptune-sized extrasolar planet orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 436. As of February 2009, it remains the second smallest transiting planet in mass and radius, after COROT-7b. Gliese 436 b was...
x HD 81040 b     HD 81040 Leo
HD 81040 b is a massive, gas giant planet that orbits the star HD 81040. The period is just over 1000 days. It has semimajor axis of 1.94 AU. However, the orbit is extremely eccentric, little over 0.5 in value. The minimum temperature of the planet...
x HD 99492 b     HD 99492 Leo  
x HD 99109 b     HD 99109 Leo
HD 99109 b is an extrasolar planet approximately 197 light-years away in the constellation of Leo. The planet was confirmed in 2006 to be orbiting the orange dwarf star HD 99109. The planet is about one half the mass of Jupiter, classifying the...
x HD 89307 b     HD 89307 Leo
HD 89307 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 89307 located approximately 108 light-years away in the constellation of Leo. The planet takes 187 megaseconds to orbit (roughly 2164 days or 5.9 years). The planet’s minimum mass is 1.92 MJ...
x HD 100777 b     HD 100777 Leo
HD 100777 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 172 light-years away in the constellation of Leo, orbiting the star HD 100777. This is a >1.17 MJ planet taking 33.15 Ms to orbit at 154.1 Gm or 4.99 μpc from the star at 36% eccentricity....
x HD 88133 b     HD 88133 Leo
HD 88133 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 88133. It is probably less massive than Jupiter and even Saturn. It orbits the star in a very tight orbit, completing one revolution around the star in every three and half days or so. Despite...
x BD+20°2457 b     BD+20°2457 Leo
BD+20°2457 b is a brown dwarf located between 320 to 980 light years away in the constellation of Leo, orbiting the 10th magnitude K-type bright giant star BD+20°2457. It has mass 21.42 times more massive than Jupiter and the orbit takes 4% longer...
x BD+20°2457 c     BD+20°2457 Leo
BD+20°2457 c is a massive extrasolar planet located between 320 to 980 light years away in the constellation of Leo, orbiting the 10th magnitude K-type bright giant star BD+20°2457. It has mass 12.47 times greater than Jupiter and it takes 1.7 years...
x Gamma Leonis b   Nov 2009 Gamma Leonis Leo  
x HD 87883 b     HD 87883 Leo Minor
HD 87883 b is an extrasolar planet which orbits the K-type main sequence star HD 87883, located approximately 59 light years away in the constellation Leo Minor. It is a long-period planet, taking seven and a half years to orbit the star at the...
x TrES-1 Ssc2005-09b   GSC 02652-01324 Lyra
TrES-1 is an extrasolar planet approximately 512 light-years away in the constellation of Lyra (the Lyre). The planet's mass and radius indicate that it is a Jovian planet with a similar bulk composition to Jupiter. Unlike Jupiter, but similar to...
x HD 38529 b     HD 38529 Orion  
x HD 38529 c     HD 38529 Orion  
x HD 37605 b     HD 37605 Orion
HD 37605 b is an extrasolar planet that has nearly three times more mass than Jupiter. It orbits close to the star, taking 54 days to revolve around the parent star HD 37605. Its orbit is highly eccentric, around 74%. Distance from HD 37605 ranges...
x HD 209458 b     HD 209458 Pegasus
HD 209458 b, also unofficially named Osiris, is an extrasolar planet that orbits the Solar analog star HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus, some 150 light-years from Earth's solar system, with evidence of water vapor. The radius of the planet's...
x 51 Pegasi b 51pegasi-b 1995 51 Pegasi Pegasus
51 Pegasi b, also unofficially named Bellerophon and or abbreviated as 51 Peg b, is an extrasolar planet approximately 50 light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus. 51 Pegasi b was the first planet to be discovered orbiting a Sun-like star ...
x HR 8799 b   Nov 13, 2008 HR 8799 Pegasus  
x WASP-11 b WASP.jpg Apr 1, 2008 WASP-11/HAT-P-10 Perseus
WASP-11b/HAT-P-10b is an extrasolar planet discovered in 2008. The discovery was announced (under the designation WASP-11b) by press release by the SuperWASP project in April 2008 along with planets WASP-6b through to WASP-15b, however at this stage...
x HD 17092 b wasp2.jpg 2007 HD 17092 Perseus
HD 17092 b is an extrasolar planet located 355 light years away in the constellation Perseus, orbiting the giant star HD 17092. In 2007 discovery of an extrasolar planet orbiting HD 17092 was announced by a team led by Andrzej Niedzielski of Polish...
x HD 23596 b     HD 23596 Perseus
HD 23596 b is an exoplanet approximately 170 light years away in the constellation Perseus. The planet is very massive, at least 7.8 times that of Jupiter, classifying as mid-superjovian. Based on its mass, the planet would probably be a gas giant...
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