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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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51 Pegasi b

51 Pegasi b is a gas giant exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star 51 Pegasi. Its discovery in 1995 marked the first confir...

Giant Pegasus Radial Velocity Hot Jupiter

9.1 Excellent

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WASP-39b

WASP-39b is a giant exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star approximately 700 light-years away. The James Webb Space Telescop...

Giant Atmosphere Hot Jupiter Transiting

9.1 Excellent

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WASP-12b

WASP-12b is a massive exoplanet orbiting the star WASP-12. This “hot Jupiter” exhibits an exceptionally short orbital pe...

Giant Hot Jupiter Transiting Tidally Distorted

8.9 Great

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WASP-121b

WASP-121b is an exoplanet classified as a giant, resembling a hot Jupiter. Its notable characteristic is its extremely s...

Giant Atmosphere Hot Jupiter Transiting

8.8 Great

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TrES-2b

TrES-2b is a giant exoplanet orbiting the star GSC 03549-02807. It’s notable as the darkest known exoplanet, reflecting...

Giant Hot Jupiter Transiting Kepler Target

8.8 Great

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WASP-189b

WASP-189b is a giant exoplanet orbiting a young A-type star. It’s notable for being one of the hottest known exoplanets,...

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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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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HAT-P-32b

A highly inflated hot Jupiter with one of the largest known radii for its mass class, making it a prime target for trans...

Giant Inflated Hot Jupiter Transiting

7.8 Good

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WASP-19b

Hot Jupiter with one of the shortest known orbital periods (~0.789 days), discovered by the WASP survey in 2010 and stud...

Giant Hot Jupiter Transiting G Star

7.8 Good

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KELT-11b

A highly inflated hot Saturn orbiting a subgiant star with one of the lowest densities among known exoplanets, making it...

Giant Inflated Hot Jupiter Transiting

7.6 Good

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Kepler-7b

A low-density hot Jupiter observed by NASA's Kepler mission, notable for being among the first exoplanets to have patchy...

Reflective Giant Kepler Hot Jupiter

7.4 Good

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HAT-P-13b

Transiting hot Jupiter discovered by HATNet in 2009, notable because its well-characterized eccentric outer companion en...

Giant Hot Jupiter Transiting Multi Planet

7.4 Good

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XO-1b

A hot Jupiter discovered in 2006 by the XO wide-field photometric survey and among the earliest transiting exoplanets to...

Giant Radial Velocity Hot Jupiter Transiting

5.5 Mediocre