Also known as Kepler-1708 b
Kepler-1708b (previously known as KIC 7906827.01) is a Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star Kepler-1708, located in the constellation of Cygnus approximately 5,600 light years away from Earth. It was first detected in 2011 by NASA's Kepler mission using the transit method, but was not identified as a candidate planet until 2019. In 2021, a candidate Neptune-sized exomoon in orbit around Kepler-1708b was found by astronomer David Kipping and colleagues in an analysis using Kepler transit data. Some subsequent research has raised discrepancies about the possible existence of an exo
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Kepler-1708b (previously known as KIC 7906827.01) is a Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star Kepler-1708, located in the constellation of Cygnus approximately 5,600 light years away from Earth. It was first detected in 2011 by NASA's Kepler mission using the transit method, but was not identified as a candidate planet until 2019. In 2021, a candidate Neptune-sized exomoon in orbit around Kepler-1708b was found by astronomer David Kipping and colleagues in an analysis using Kepler transit data. Some subsequent research has raised discrepancies about the possible existence of an exomoon, similar to that of Kepler-1625b but even more recent research still finds the existence of an exomoon likely.
== Characteristics == === Mass and radius === Kepler-1708b is a gas giant planet slightly smaller than Jupiter in size, with a radius of 0.89 Jupiter radii. The mass of the planet remains yet to be measured; precise analysis of its transit timings place a 2-sigma upper limit of \log_{10}{(L_{\ast})} = 0.182 \pm 0.082 from Kipping et al. (2022)}} Based on these properties, Kepler-1708 is likely an F-type main sequence star with a Sun-like metallicity of [Fe/H] = and an age of billion years.{{efn|Age calculated from the inverse of \log_{10}{(A)} = 9.50 \pm 0.31 from Kipping et al. (2022)}}
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).