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Kepler-34
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Kepler-34 is an eclipsing binary star system in the constellation of Cygnus. Both stars have roughly the same mass as the Sun and, like the Sun, both are spectral class G. They are separated by 0.22 AU, and complete an eccentric (e=0.5) orbit around a common center of mass every 27 days.

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Constellation
Cygnus
Child body
Kepler-34b
Distance from Earth
1499
Diameter
1420000
Radius
1.1
Mass
2.0687
Variable-star type
Algol variable
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catalog code
Kepler-34
effective temperature
5913
apparent magnitude
14.819803
parallax
0.5529
epoch
J2000.0
metallicity
-0.33
surface gravity
47000
luminosity
3.1960068
right ascension component of proper motion
-3.424
declination component of proper motion
-5.033
spectral class
G
right ascension
296.43582287439
declination
44.64155860641
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Kepler-34 is an eclipsing binary star system in the constellation of Cygnus. Both stars have roughly the same mass as the Sun and, like the Sun, both are spectral class G. They are separated by 0.22 AU, and complete an eccentric (e=0.5) orbit around a common center of mass every 27 days.

==Planetary system== Kepler-34b is a gas giant that orbits the two stars in the Kepler-34 system. The planet is just over a fifth of Jupiter's mass and has a radius of 0.764 Jupiter radii. The planet completes a somewhat eccentric orbit every 288.822 days from a semimajor axis of just over 1 AU, the largest of any transiting planets at the time of its discovery. Such detection was possible as the planet transits both the stars, thus requiring fewer orbits to confirm the planet.

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