Kepler-35 - System
Kepler-35 b, a Saturn-sized planet orbiting two stars. Its transits of both stars helped prove circumbinary planets are common, not flukes. Both stars are smaller and cooler than the Sun.
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Exoplanets
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Tour the most extraordinary, record-breaking exoplanets discovered by modern science. Simulate hyper-eccentric worlds, extreme "Hot Jupiters," and the most fascinating alien star systems in our galaxy.
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Kepler-36 - System
Kepler-36, where a rocky world and a puffy mini-Neptune orbit only 0.01 AU apart. Their transit times swing wildly from the mutual tugs. Their bulk densities differ by nearly a factor of eight.
Kepler-37 - System
Kepler-37, famous for Kepler-37 b, announced as a planet smaller than Mercury. The inner world is one of the tiniest Kepler ever found. The host is a bright G dwarf, so the tiny dips were hard-won.
Kepler-38 - System
Kepler-38 b, one of the smallest circumbinary planets found by Kepler. It orbits a stellar pair just outside the zone where orbits go unstable.
Kepler-413 - System
Kepler-413 b, a circumbinary planet whose transits turn on and off. Rapid orbital precession makes the planet miss the stellar disks for years.
Kepler-42 - System
Kepler-42, three planets smaller than Earth around a tiny red dwarf. The whole system would fit well inside Mercury's orbit. All three planets are smaller than Earth itself.
Kepler-442 - System
Kepler-442 b, one of the most Earth-like planets Kepler found. It sits in the habitable zone of a K dwarf with a size close to Earth's. It receives about two-thirds of the sunlight Earth gets.
Kepler-444 - System
Kepler-444, an ancient compact system about 11 billion years old. Five sub-Earth planets orbit a star that formed when the Galaxy was young.
Kepler-452 - System
Kepler-452 b, called Earth's older cousin. It is a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star somewhat older than the Sun. It receives only modestly more starlight than Earth.
Kepler-453 - System
Kepler-453 b, a circumbinary giant that only transits about 9 percent of the time. Precession carries it in and out of our line of sight. Most seasons the planet misses the stars entirely.
Kepler-47 - System
Kepler-47, the first multi-planet system around two stars. At least one of its circumbinary worlds sits near the binary's habitable zone. The stellar pair itself eclipses about every week.
Kepler-51 - System
Kepler-51, the super-puff system. These planets are nearly as large as Jupiter but only a few Earth masses — cotton-candy densities. Planets b, c, and d are all super-puffs.
Kepler-56 - System
Kepler-56, the first multi-planet system found tilted relative to its star. The planets share a plane that is tipped against the stellar equator.
Kepler-60 - System
Kepler-60, three planets hovering near a three-body resonance. Small shifts in spacing would decide whether the chain holds or goes chaotic.
Kepler-62 - System
Kepler-62, a five-planet system with two worlds in the habitable zone. Kepler-62 f was an early favorite in the search for temperate rocky planets.
Kepler-78 - System
Kepler-78 b, an Earth-sized lava world with both a measured mass and radius. It orbits so close that a year lasts only 8.5 hours. Its density is close to Earth's, so the planet is rock.
Kepler-79 - System
Kepler-79, four low-density planets near resonance. Like Kepler-51, they are puffier than their masses suggest, a clue to thick atmospheres.
Kepler-80 - System
Kepler-80, a compact resonant chain of five planets. Neighboring orbits are so close that transit timing reveals their masses. Transit timing of the chain yields several of the masses.