Kepler-23 b
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.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Kepler-23 b is referenced by 308 other articles, and connects out to Kepler-42, Gliese 676 and Kepler Space Telescope.
Vinony files it under Cygnus (constellation), Exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope and Exoplanets discovered in 2012.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 2,862 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 294.2189° · Dec 49.4792°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Parent body
- Kepler-23
- 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
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- right ascension
- 294.21889814006204
- declination
- 49.47923697243722
- epoch
- J2000.0
- discovery method
- transit method
- 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-23 b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.