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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| x Kepler-11 e |
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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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| x Kepler-11 d |
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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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| x Kepler-11 b |
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| x Kepler-11 f |
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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 1214 b |
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Super-Earth |
GJ 1214 b is an extrasolar planet that orbits the star GJ 1214. The parent star is 13 parsecs (approximately 40 light-years) from the Sun, in the constellation Ophiuchus. The planet was discovered in December 2009. It is classified as a super-Earth...
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| x HD 156668 b | Super-Earth | 4 | ||
| x COROT-7 c | Super-Earth | 8.4 | ||
| x Gliese 581 e |
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Super-Earth | 1.9 | |
| x COROT-7 b |
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Super-Earth |
COROT-7b (previously named COROT-Exo-7b) is a reported exoplanet orbiting around the star COROT-7, in the constellation Monoceros, at 489 light years from Earth. It was first detected photometrically by the French-led COROT mission and reported in...
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| x MOA-2007-BLG-192-L b |
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Gas giant |
MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, occasionally shortened to MOA-192 b, is an extrasolar planet approximately 3,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. The planet was discovered orbiting the brown dwarf or low-mass star MOA-2007-BLG-192L. At a...
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| x OGLE-2005-BLG-390L b |
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Super-Earth | 5.5 | |
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| x OGLE-2005-BLG-169L b | Super-Earth |
OGLE-2005-BLG-169Lb is an extrasolar planet located approximately 2700 parsecs away in the constellation of Sagittarius, orbiting the star OGLE-2005-BLG-169L. This planet was discovered by the OGLE project using the gravitational microlensing method...
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| x HD 40307 d |
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Super-Earth |
HD 40307 d is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 40307, located 42 light-years from Earth in the direction of the southern constellation Pictor. The planet was discovered by the radial velocity method, using the HARPS apparatus in June 2008....
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| x HD 40307 c | Terrestrial planet | 6.7 | ||
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| x HD 40307 b | Super-Earth |
HD 40307 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 40307, located 42 light-years away in the direction of the southern constellation Pictor. The planet was discovered by the radial velocity method, using the HARPS apparatus, in June 2008; it is...
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| x HD 181433 b | Super-Earth |
HD 181433 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 87 light years away in the constellation of Pavo, orbiting the star HD 181433. This planet has mass at least 7.56 times that of Earth. This planet is classified as a super-Earth and orbits at...
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| x HD 69830 b |
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Super-Earth | 10 | |
| x Gliese 581 d |
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Terrestrial planet |
Gliese 581 d ( /ˈɡliːzə/) or Gl 581 d is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star Gliese 581 approximately 20 light-years away in the constellation of Libra. It is the third planet discovered in the system and the fifth in order from the star.
Because...
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| x Gliese 581 c |
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Terrestrial planet |
Gliese 581 c ( /ˈɡliːzə/) or Gl 581 c is a planet orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581. It is the second planet discovered in the system and the third in order from the star. With a mass at least 5.6 times that of the Earth, it is classified as a...
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