Kepler-76b
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 2,723 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 294.1921° · Dec 39.6190°
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Radius
- 1.36
- Mass
- 2.01
- Orbital period
- 1.544928883
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- catalog code
- Kepler-76b
- time of discovery or invention
- 2013-07-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- right ascension
- 294.19212124477670
- declination
- 39.61898354583806
- epoch
- J2000.0
- discovery method
- transit method
- temperature
- 2140.0
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.0274
- orbital inclination
- 77.55
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.485
- declination component of proper motion
- -2.528
- parallax
- 1.1864
- M sin i
- 2
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.078
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Kepler-76b is a gas giant with mass about two times that of Jupiter.
It is a Hot Jupiter that orbits its star every 1.5 days. It was confirmed with the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey and the SOPHIE échelle spectrograph.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-76b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.