Kepler-8b
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kepler-8b-163-7462355
title:
Kepler-8b
text:
Kepler-8b is the fifth of the first five exoplanets discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which aims to discover planets in a region of the sky between the constellations Lyra and Cygnus that transit their host stars. The planet is the hottest of the five. Kepler-8b was the only planet discovered in Kepler-8's orbit, and is larger than Jupiter. It orbits its host star every 3.5 days. The planet also demonstrates the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect, where the planet's orbit affects the redshifting o
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Extrasolar planet
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-8b
date created:
2010-01-04T18:35:58Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T06:47:01Z
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13
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