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Kepler-9
Sign in to saveKepler-9 is a sunlike star in the constellation Lyra. Its planetary system, discovered by the Kepler Mission in 2010 was the first detected with the transit method found to contain multiple planets.
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- Object type
- Er*
- Spectral type
- G2
- Distance
- 2,061 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.000008749758060311308
- Coordinates
- RA 285.5740° · Dec 38.4009°
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- Nomenclature and history
- Characteristics
- Planetary system
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- References
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Kepler-9 is a sunlike star in the constellation Lyra. Its planetary system, discovered by the Kepler Mission in 2010 was the first detected with the transit method found to contain multiple planets.
==Nomenclature and history== Kepler-9 was named for the Kepler Mission, a project headed by NASA that was designed to search for Earth-like planets.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-9” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.