An Exoplanet (extra-solar planet) is a planet outside our solar system As of November 2008, 319 exoplanets have been detected. The vast majority were detected through various indirect methods rather than actual imaging. Most of them are massive giant planets likely to resemble Jupiter.
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61 Virginis | Virgo |
61 Virginis c (abbreviated 61 Vir c) is an extrasolar planet, orbiting the 5th magnitude G-type star 61 Virginis, in Virgo. This planet has a minimum mass of 18.2 times that of Earth and orbits one-fifth the distance to the star as Earth orbits the...
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61 Virginis | Virgo |
61 Virginis b (abbreviated 61 Vir b) is an extrasolar planet, orbiting the 5th magnitude G-type star 61 Virginis, in Virgo. This planet has a minimum mass of 5.1 times that of Earth and is an example of a super-Earth planet. It orbits very close to...
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61 Virginis | Virgo |
61 Virginis d (abbreviated 61 Vir d) is an extrasolar planet, orbiting the 5th magnitude G-type star 61 Virginis, in Virgo. This planet has a minimum mass of 22.9 times that of Earth and orbits nearly one-half the distance to the star as Earth...
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| x 11 Ursae Minoris b | 11 Ursae Minoris |
11 Ursae Minoris b is an extrasolar planet which orbits the K-type giant star 11 Ursae Minoris, located approximately 390 light years away in the constellation Ursa Minor. This planet has mass 10.5 MJ. However, since the mass is at lower limit and...
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| x 109 Piscium b | 109 Piscium | Pisces |
109 Piscium b (aka HD 10697 b) is a long-period extrasolar planet discovered in orbit around 109 Piscium. It is at least 6.38 times the mass of Jupiter and is likely to be a gas giant. As typical for long-period planets discovered around other stars...
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| x HIP 14810 d | HIP 14810 | Aries |
HIP 14810 d is an extrasolar planet approximately 172 light-years away in the constellation of Aries. This planet has mass at least 0.57 times that of Jupiter and orbits at 1.89 AU in an eccentric orbit.
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| x Kepler-19c | Kepler-19 | Lyra |
Kepler-19c is an extra-solar planet orbiting the star Kepler-19.
The planet was discovered as a result of examinations of data from the previously discovered exoplanet : Kepler-19b. Timing variations in the orbital period of the first planet...
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| x Kepler-19b | Kepler-19 | Lyra |
Kepler-19b is a planet in the orbit of star Kepler-19. The planet has an orbital period of 9.3 days, with an estimated radius of roughly 2.2 Earth radii, and mass less than 20.3 Earth masses .
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| x Kepler-9d | Kepler-9 | Lyra |
Kepler-9d, formerly known as KOI-377.03, is a planet in orbit around the sunlike star Kepler-9. Initially discovered by Kepler spacecraft, a terrestrial planet-searching satellite built and operated by NASA, Kepler-9d is most likely a Super-Earth,...
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| x Kepler-16b | Kepler-16 | Cygnus |
Kepler-16b (formally Kepler-16 (AB)-b) is an extrasolar planet. It is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half rock and half gas, and it orbits a binary star, Kepler-16, with a period of 229 days. "[It] is the first confirmed, unambiguous example of...
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Kepler-11 |
Kepler-11c is an exoplanet discovered in the orbit of the sun-like star Kepler-11 by the Kepler spacecraft, a NASA telescope aiming to discover Earth-like planets. It is the second planet from its parent star, and is most likely a water planet with...
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Kepler-12 | Lyra |
Kepler-12b is a Hot Jupiter that orbits G-type star Kepler-12 some 600 parsecs away. The planet has an anomalously large radius that could not be explained by standard models at the time of its discovery, as it is almost 1.7 times Jupiter's size...
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| x HAT-P-14b | HAT-P-14 | Hercules |
HAT-P-14b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HAT-P-14. This planet was discovered by the transit method and submitted for publication on March 10, 2010.
This planet is located approximately 205 parsecs (670 ly) away in the constellation of...
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| x HAT-P-13b | HAT-P-13 |
HAT-P-13b is an extrasolar planet approximately 697 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The planet was discovered when it transited across its sun, HAT-P-13. This planet is a hot Jupiter with 0.851 times the mass of Jupiter and 1.28...
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| x Kepler-11 e |
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Kepler-11 |
Kepler-11e is an exoplanet (extrasolar planet) discovered in the orbit of the sunlike star Kepler-11. It is the fourth of six planets around Kepler-11 discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft. Kepler-11e was found by using the transit method, in which...
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Kepler-10 | Draco |
Kepler-10c is an exoplanet orbiting yellow giant Kepler-10, located around 560 light-years away in Draco. Its discovery was announced by Kepler in May 2011, although it had been seen as a planetary candidate since January 2011 when Kepler-10b was...
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Kepler-11 |
Kepler-11d is an exoplanet discovered in the orbit of the sun-like star Kepler-11. It is named for the telescope that discovered it, a NASA spacecraft named Kepler that is designed to detect Earth-like planets by measuring small dips in the...
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Kepler-11 |
Kepler-11g is an exoplanet discovered in the orbit of the sunlike star Kepler-11 by the Kepler spacecraft, a NASA satellite that is tasked with searching for terrestrial planets. Kepler-11g is the outermost of the six planets orbiting the star. The...
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Kepler-11 |
Kepler-11b is an exoplanet discovered in the orbit of the star Kepler-11 by the Kepler spacecraft, a NASA-led mission to discover Earth-like planets. Kepler-11b is four times more massive and twice as large as Earth, but it has a lighter density...
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Kepler-11 |
Kepler-11f is an exoplanet (extrasolar planet) discovered in the orbit of the sunlike star Kepler-11 by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which searches for planets that transit (cross in front of) their host stars. Kepler-11f is the fifth planet from its...
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| x GJ 3634 b | GJ 3634 |
GJ 3634 b is a Super-Earth in the orbit of the nearby red dwarf GJ 3634. The planet is approximately eight times the mass of Earth, and orbits its star every two and a half days at a distance of .0287 AU. The planet was the first to be discovered by...
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WASP-44 |
WASP-44b is a closely orbiting Jupiter-sized planet found in the orbit of the sunlike star WASP-44 by the SuperWASP program, which searches for transiting planets that cross in front of their host stars as seen from Earth. After follow-up...
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| x WASP-43 b | WASP-43 |
WASP-43b is a transiting planet in orbit around the young, active, and low-mass star WASP-43 in the constellation Sextans. The planet is a Hot Jupiter with a mass almost twice that of Jupiter, but a radius that is slightly less than Jupiter's. WASP...
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HIP 13044 | Fornax |
HIP 13044 b is a Jupiter-like extrasolar planet orbiting the old and metal-poor red giant star HIP 13044, which is situated approximately 2,000 light years away from the Earth in the constellation Fornax. Its discovery was announced on November 18,...
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| x Kepler-9 c | Kepler-9 | Lyra |
Kepler-9c is one of the first seven extrasolar planets, exoplanets, discovered by NASA's Kepler Mission, and one of at least two planets orbiting the star Kepler-9. Kepler-9c and Kepler-9b were the first exoplanets confirmed to be transiting their...
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| x Kepler-9 b | Kepler-9 | Lyra |
Kepler-9b is one of the first planets discovered outside the solar system (exoplanets) by NASA's Kepler Mission. It revolves around the star Kepler-9 within the constellation Lyra. Kepler-9b is the largest of three planets detected in the Kepler...
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| x HD 176051 b | HD 176051 | Lyra | ||
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Aquarius |
91 Aquarii b, also known as HD 219449 b, is an extrasolar planet orbiting in the 91 Aquarii system approximately 148 light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius. It orbits at the average distance of 48.5 Gm from its star, which is closer than...
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| x Gliese 849 b | Gliese 849 | Aquarius |
Gliese 849 b is an extrasolar planet approximately 29 light years away in the constellation of Aquarius. It is the first long-period Jupiter-like planet discovered around a red dwarf, announced in August 2006 by the California and Carnegie Planet...
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| x Kepler-10 b | Kepler-10 |
Kepler-10b is the first confirmed terrestrial planet to have been discovered outside the Solar System. Discovered after several months of data collection during the course of the NASA-directed Kepler Mission, which aims to discover Earth-like...
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| x Gliese 581 g | Gliese 581 | Libra |
Gliese 581 g ( /ˈɡliːzə/), also Gl 581 g or GJ 581 g and unofficially Zarmina's World, is an unconfirmed extrasolar planet of the red dwarf star Gliese 581, 20.5 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Libra. It is the sixth planet discovered...
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| x tau Gem b | Tau Geminorum | Gemini | ||
| x OGLE-TR-111 b |
OGLE-TR-111b is an extrasolar planet approximately 5,000 light-years away in the constellation of Carina (the Keel). The planet is currently the only confirmed planet orbiting the star OGLE-TR-111 (though a possible second planet is plausible).
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HIP 14810 | Aries |
HIP 14810 b is a massive hot Jupiter approximately 172 light-years away in the constellation of Aries. It has mass 3.88 times that of Jupiter and orbits at 0.0692 AU. It was discovered by the N2K Consortium in 2006 and the discovery paper was...
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HIP 14810 | Aries |
HIP 14810 c is an extrasolar planet approximately 172 light-years away in the constellation of Aries. This planet has mass at least 1.28 times that of Jupiter and orbits at 0.545 AU in an eccentric orbit. The planet was discovered by the N2K...
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| x NGC 2423-3 b |
NGC 2423-3b is an extrasolar planet approximately 2498 light-years away in the constellation of Puppis. The planet was announced in 2007 to be orbiting the red giant star NGC 2423-3 (which in turn is part of the NGC 2423 open cluster). The planet...
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| x HD 11506 c | HD 11506 |
HD 11506 c is an extrasolar planet located approximately 176 light years away in the constellation of Cetus, orbiting the 8th magnitude G-type main sequence star HD 11506. It is the second planet in this system discovered on February 18, 2009 by a...
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| x HD 102195 b | HD 102195 | Virgo |
HD 102195 b (also called ET-1) is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 102195 in the constellation of Virgo, discovered in January 2006. It is the first planet discovered by the Exoplanet Tracker project, using a dispersed fixed-delay...
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| x HD 72659 b | HD 72659 |
HD 72659 b is a superjovian exoplanet massing at least 3.3 MJ orbiting at 4.77 AU from the star taking 3630 days to orbit. The orbital distance range from 3.49 AU to 6.05 AU with orbital eccentricity of 0.269.
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| x HD 6434 b | HD 6434 |
HD 6434 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 6434. It has a minimum mass about half that of Jupiter. It orbits the star very close, over 2.5 times as close as Mercury orbits the Sun. For this reason it completes one orbit in only 22 days....
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HD 171028 b is a >1.83 MJ exoplanet orbiting very eccentrically around HD 171028. The period is 1.47 years and semi-major axis of 1.29 AU. The Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search team announced the discovery of planet on July 13, 2007.
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| x HD 108147 b |
HD 108147 b is a gas giant exoplanet with a minimum mass about half that of Jupiter. It orbits the star in a very tight "torch orbit". The distance between the planet and the star is only a tenth of the distance between Earth and the Sun (0.1AU). A...
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| x HD 190228 b |
HD 190228 b is an 1146-day period extrasolar planet with a minimum mass 4.49 Jupiter mass. The mass is minimum since inclination is unknown. This gas giant planet orbits at 2.25 astronomical units or 336 gigameters or 10.9 microparsecs. The orbital...
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| x HD 114386 b |
HD 114386 b is an exoplanet orbiting the star HD 114386. The planet orbits the star in a rather eccentric orbit. Mean distance from the star is 1.62 AU, somewhat more than distance between Mars and the Sun. At periastron, the planet comes almost as...
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| x HD 107148 b |
HD 107148 b is a jovian exoplanet with minimum mass of only 70% that of Saturn. Unlike Saturn, it orbits much closer to the star, only 26.9% of distance of Earth to the Sun, but like Saturn, it has low eccentricity about the same as Saturn.
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| x HD 125612 b |
HD 125612 b is an extrasolar planet which orbits the G-type main sequence star HD 125612, located approximately 172 light years away in the constellation Virgo. This planet was detected by radial velocity and published on April 10, 2007.
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| x HD 8574 b |
HD 8574 b is an extrasolar planet discovered in 2001 by a team of European astronomers using Doppler spectroscopy as part of the ELODIE Planet Search Survey, and was published in a paper with five other planets. HD 8574 b is in the orbit of host...
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| x HD 73256 b |
HD 73256 b is an 1.87 MJ hot Jupiter orbiting at 0.037 AU taking 2.55 days to orbit around HD 73256.
Assuming the planet is perfectly grey with no greenhouse or tidal effects, and a Bond albedo of 0.1, the temperature would be about 1300 K. This is...
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| x HD 111232 b |
HD 111232 b is an extrasolar planet that orbits almost 2 AU with a mass of at least 6.8 times that of Jupiter. This planet was discovered in the La Silla Observatory by Michel Mayor using the CORALIE spectrograph on 30 June 2003, along with six...
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| x HD 195019 b |
HD 195019 b is an exoplanet orbiting around HD 195019 in the binary star system. It has a minimum mass of 3.7 MJ. It orbits very close to the star. Like many planets at close distance, its orbit is circular, even more circular or less eccentric than...
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| x HD 102117 b |
HD 102117 b is a planet that orbits the star HD 102117. The planet is a small gas giant a fifth the size of Jupiter. It orbits very close to its star, but not in a "torch orbit" like the famous 51 Pegasi b. It is one of the smallest extrasolar...
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| x HD 149143 b |
HD 149143 b is an extrasolar planet that has a minimum mass of 1.33 Jupiter masses. As is typical for a lot of hot Jupiters, its orbital eccentricity is low.
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| x HD 4203 b |
HD 4203 b is an exoplanet more massive than Jupiter. It orbits two times further from the star than Earth to the Sun. The planet takes 1.1824 year to orbit the star very eccentrically from 1.00 AU to 3.14 AU. The planet was discovered by Steve Vogt...
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| x HD 210702 b |
HD 210702 b is an exoplanet located approximately 182 light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus, orbiting the star HD 210702. This planet, together with HD 175541 b and HD 192699 b, are planets around intermediate mass stars that were...
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| x HD 196050 b |
HD 196050 b is a 1378-day extrasolar planet with a minimum mass of 2.90 Jupiter mass. The average orbital distance is 2.54 astronomical units or 380 gigameters or 12.3 microparsecs. The orbital eccentricity is 22.8%. The periastron (closest)...
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| x HD 130322 b |
HD 130322 b is an exoplanet with a minimum mass slightly more than that of Jupiter. It orbits the star in a very close orbit distance being only a quarter that of Mercury from the Sun. It is thus a so-called "hot Jupiter". The planet orbits the star...
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HD 170469 b is a gas giant exoplanet located approximately 212 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, orbiting the star HD 170469. This planet was discovered in April 2007. The star is 1.1 solar mass and the planet is at least 67% the mass...
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| x HD 104985 b |
HD 104985 b is an extrasolar planet that takes 198 days to orbit at the distance of 0.78 AU. It is definitely a gas giant since it has mass 6/3 times Jupiter.
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| x HD 27894 b |
HD 27894 b is a gas giant with a mass at least two thirds that of Jupiter, or twice that of Saturn. The distance from the planet to the star is one third compared that of Mercury from our Sun, and it takes almost exactly 18 days to complete one...
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| x HD 175541 b |
HD 175541 b is a jovian planet located approximately 416 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens, orbiting the star HD 175541. This planet was discovered in April 2007. Despite the distance of planet to star slightly more than Earth to the...
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