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Sign in to saveKepler-23b is an exoplanet orbiting Kepler-23, located in the Cygnus constellation. The exoplanet was discovered with the Kepler space telescope in January 2012.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 2,862 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 294.2189° · Dec 49.4792°
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Wikidata facts
- Diameter
- 23900
- Radius
- 1.638
- Mass
- 2.56
- Orbital period
- 7.1
- Image
- Kepler-23 b.jpg
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- catalog code
- Kepler-23b
- time of discovery or invention
- 2012-05-00
- right ascension
- 294.21889814006204
- declination
- 49.47923697243722
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.075
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.017
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 2.262
- declination component of proper motion
- 3.851
- parallax
- 1.1678
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Kepler-23b is an exoplanet orbiting Kepler-23, located in the Cygnus constellation. The exoplanet was discovered with the Kepler space telescope in January 2012.
The planet is bigger than Earth, and its orbit is very close to its parent star. Orbital periods are 7.1 days and it presents a semi-major axis 0.099 AU.
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