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    An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first possible evidence of an exoplanet was noted in 1917 but was not then...
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    imaged exoplanets List of exoplanet extremes List of exoplanet firsts List of exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope List of exoplanets observed...
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    habitable exoplanets. The list is mostly based on estimates of habitability by the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog (HEC), and data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive...
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    causes a glare that washes it out. For those reasons, very few of the exoplanets reported as of January 2024[update] have been observed directly, with...
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    There are 5,653 known exoplanets, or planets outside the Solar System that orbit a star, as of April 1, 2024; only a small fraction of these are located...
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    Neptunian exoplanets are similar in size to Neptune or Uranus in the Solar System. Neptunian exoplanets may have a mixture of interiors though all would...
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    Wikinews has related news: NASA launches exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS, Explorer 95 or MIDEX-7) is a space...
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  • information. Lists of exoplanets List of directly imaged exoplanets List of exoplanet extremes List of exoplanet firsts List of exoplanets discovered by the...
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  • Exoplanet is the debut studio album by American progressive metal band The Contortionist, released through Good Fight Entertainment on August 31, 2010...
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  • known exoplanets. The properties listed here are those for which values are known reliably. It is important to note that the study of exoplanets is one...
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    2010). Transiting Exoplanets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-13938-0. Perryman, Michael (26 May 2011). The Exoplanet Handbook. Cambridge...
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    Below is a list of the smallest exoplanets so far discovered, in terms of physical size, ordered by radius. The sizes are listed in units of Earth radii...
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    Kepler-452b (category Exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope)
    its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-7016.01) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the inner edge of the habitable zone of the sun-like star...
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    astronomers to detect distant exoplanets from Earth. Theoretically, some of these methods can be used to detect Earth as an exoplanet from distant star systems...
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    Below is a list of the largest exoplanets so far discovered, in terms of physical size, ordered by radius. This list of extrasolar objects may and will...
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    Planet (section Exoplanets)
    and Salacia). An exoplanet (exoplanet) is a planet outside the Solar System. As of 1 April 2024, there are 5,653 confirmed exoplanets in 4,161 planetary...
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    geophysical comparisons between the Earth and other bodies. The discovery of exoplanets, beginning in the early 1990s and accelerating thereafter, has provided...
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    in which they criticized the language used in the search for habitable exoplanets and proposed clarifications. The authors argued that knowing whether a...
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    The NASA Exoplanet Archive is an online astronomical exoplanet catalog and data service that collects and serves public data that support the search for...
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  • This list of nearest terrestrial exoplanet candidates contains possible terrestrial ("rocky") exoplanets spaced at a distance of up to 50 light-years...
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  • An extragalactic planet, also known as an extragalactic exoplanet or an extroplanet, is a star-bound planet or rogue planet located outside of the Milky...
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    scientists reported the detection of LHS 475 b, an Earth-like exoplanet — and the first exoplanet discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope. Scientific...
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    The list of exoplanets detected by the Kepler space telescope contains bodies with a wide variety of properties, with significant ranges in orbital distances...
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    named Janssen /ˈdʒænsən/) is an exoplanet in the orbit of its Sun-like host star 55 Cancri A. The mass of the exoplanet is about 8.63 Earth masses and...
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    Kepler-186f (category Exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope)
    its Kepler object of interest designation KOI-571.05) is an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Kepler-186, the...
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    K2-18b (category Exoplanets discovered in 2015)
    K2-18b, also known as EPIC 201912552 b, is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf K2-18, located 124 light-years (38 pc) away from Earth. The planet is a...
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    A Super-Earth is a type of exoplanet with a mass higher than Earth's, but substantially below those of the Solar System's ice giants, Uranus and Neptune...
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    light-years (15 parsecs) away in the constellation of Pegasus. It was the first exoplanet to be discovered orbiting a main-sequence star, the Sun-like 51 Pegasi...
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    Epsilon Eridani b, also known as AEgir [sic], is an exoplanet approximately 10.5 light-years away orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, in the constellation...
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    An exoplanet (extrasolar planet) is a planet located outside the Solar System. The first evidence of an exoplanet was noted as early as 1917, but was not...
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