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HD 209458 b

HD 209458 b is a giant exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star approximately 153 light-years away. It gained significant atte...

Giant Hot Jupiter Transiting Atmosphere Detected

9.6 Brilliant

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KELT-9b

KELT-9b is a giant exoplanet orbiting the star HD 189733A. It’s notable as the hottest known planet, boasting a dayside...

Giant Hot Jupiter Transiting Ultrahot

9.5 Brilliant

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HD 189733 b

HD 189733 b is a gas giant exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star approximately 63 light-years away. It’s notable for posses...

Blue Planet Giant Atmosphere Hot Jupiter

9.4 Excellent

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Kepler-16b

Kepler-16b is a giant exoplanet orbiting two stars. Its notable feature is its circumbinary orbit, meaning it circles bo...

Giant Kepler Transiting Circumbinary

9.4 Excellent

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WASP-76b

WASP-76b is an exoplanet orbiting a distant star, classified as a “hot Jupiter.” Its notable characteristic is its extre...

Giant Atmosphere Hot Jupiter Transiting

9.3 Excellent

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WASP-96b

WASP-96b is a giant exoplanet orbiting a star approximately 843 light-years away. Its atmosphere was studied extensively...

Giant Atmosphere Hot Jupiter Transiting

9.2 Excellent

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HR 8799 c

HR 8799 c is a gas giant exoplanet discovered orbiting the young A-type star HR 8799. It’s notable as one of the first p...

Young Giant Direct Imaging A Star

9.1 Excellent

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HR 8799 d

HR 8799 d is a gas giant exoplanet located approximately 129 light-years from Earth. It’s notable as one of the first pl...

Young Giant Direct Imaging A Star

9.0 Excellent

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HR 8799 e

HR 8799 e is a gas giant exoplanet discovered orbiting the young star HR 8799. Its significance lies as the innermost pl...

Young Giant Direct Imaging A Star

9.0 Excellent

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WASP-121b

An ultra-hot Jupiter with a detected stratosphere and dayside temperatures exceeding 2,400 K, orbiting its host star in...

Giant Atmosphere Hot Jupiter Transiting

8.8 Great

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TrES-2b

The darkest known exoplanet, reflecting less than 1% of incident starlight, discovered by the TrES survey in 2006 and su...

Giant Hot Jupiter Transiting Kepler Target

8.8 Great

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HIP 65426 b

HIP 65426 b is a directly imaged gas giant exoplanet orbiting the young star HIP 65426 about 385 light-years away, disco...

Young Giant Direct Imaging Jwst Target

8.8 Great

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WASP-189b

A very hot Jupiter orbiting a bright A-type star, studied intensively by ESA's CHEOPS mission and among the hottest know...

Giant Hot Jupiter Transiting Ultrashort Period

8.7 Great

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WASP-17b

The first exoplanet confirmed to orbit in a retrograde direction relative to its host star's rotation, announced by the...

Giant Hot Jupiter Transiting Retrograde Orbit

8.6 Great

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2M1207 b

Imaged in 2004 by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, 2M1207b is a gas giant notable for being the...

Young Giant Direct Imaging Brown Dwarf Host

8.5 Great

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HAT-P-7b

A hot Jupiter in the Cygnus field whose reflected starlight and orbital phase curve were detected by NASA's Kepler teles...

Retrograde Giant Hot Jupiter Transiting

8.4 Great

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Kepler-47c

Outer planet of the Kepler-47 circumbinary system announced in 2012, notable as the first circumbinary planet found orbi...

Giant Kepler Transiting Circumbinary

8.4 Great

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Tau Boötis b

A hot Jupiter discovered in 1996 around Tau Boötis, notable as one of the first exoplanets to have its atmospheric compo...

Giant Radial Velocity Hot Jupiter F Star

8.3 Great

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VHS 1256 b

VHS 1256 b is a widely separated planetary-mass object notable for having water, methane, and carbon monoxide detected i...

Young Giant Direct Imaging Jwst Target

8.2 Great

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Gliese 876 b

Gliese 876 b is a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting the nearby M-dwarf Gliese 876 ~15 light-years away, discovered in 1998, a...

Resonance Giant Cold Radial Velocity

8.1 Great