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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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.