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WASP-127b is a transiting exoplanet classified as a "hot Saturn" due to its mass being roughly equivalent to Saturn's, despite being significantly larger in radius. Discovered in 2016, it orbits a G-type star and possesses a heavily inflated, low-density atmosphere. Spectroscopic observations have s...

Pi Mensae c is an exoplanet orbiting the G-type main-sequence star Pi Mensae, located approximately 60 light-years from Earth. Discovered in 2018 by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), it holds the distinction of being the very first exoplanet candidate identified by the mission. It...

WASP-19b is a hot Jupiter exoplanet with one of the shortest known orbital periods of any exoplanet, completing an orbit around its G-type host star in approximately 0.789 days, or roughly 19 hours. It was discovered by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) survey and its discovery was published...

HD 80606 b is a gas giant exoplanet orbiting the star HD 80606, which together with HD 80607 forms a binary star system approximately 190 light-years from Earth. Discovered in 2001 through radial velocity measurements, the planet has one of the most eccentric orbits of any known exoplanet, with an e...

HAT-P-13b is a transiting hot Jupiter discovered by the HATNet survey and announced in 2009. It circles its Sun-like host star in a short-period orbit, while the same system contains a more distant and substantially more eccentric companion detected through radial-velocity measurements. The system h...

Pi Mensae b is a massive gas-giant exoplanet detected by the radial-velocity method and announced in 2001. It follows a long, highly eccentric orbit around Pi Mensae, a nearby G-type star, carrying it through a wide range of distances from its host. The system also contains the close-orbiting transi...

Mu Arae b is a gas-giant exoplanet orbiting Mu Arae, a G-type star roughly 50 light-years from Earth. It was detected through radial-velocity measurements made with the CORALIE spectrograph and announced in 2000. The planet travels on an orbit lasting several hundred days, and it belongs to a multip...

Mu Arae c is a close-orbiting exoplanet detected by radial-velocity measurements around Mu Arae, a G-type star about 50 light-years away. Reported in 2004, it has a minimum mass of roughly 10 Earth masses and completes an orbit in about 9.6 days, placing it in the hot-Neptune or Neptune-mass range....

HAT-P-13c is a reported outer planetary companion in the HAT-P-13 system, whose inner planet HAT-P-13b transits its host star. The outer body was identified through radial-velocity measurements and has a substantially longer, eccentric orbit than planet b. Its gravitational effect has been studied b...

HD 160691 b is a giant exoplanet orbiting the nearby G-type star mu Arae, also designated HD 160691. It was the first confirmed planet reported in the mu Arae system, which is now known to contain multiple planets. The planet was detected through changes in the star's radial velocity, and the system...

HD 28185 b is a giant exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star HD 28185 in the constellation Eridanus. Its orbit takes about 383 days, giving it a period close to Earth's year, and its orbital distance places it within estimates of the star's habitable zone. The planet itself is not considered Earth-lik...

HD 37124 b is a giant exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star HD 37124, located roughly 100 light-years from Earth. It was detected through radial-velocity measurements and was the first planet reported in a system that later became known to contain multiple planetary companions. Its orbit is relativel...

HIP 14810 b is a gas-giant exoplanet orbiting the star HIP 14810, a Sun-like star in the constellation Pisces. It was identified through the radial-velocity method, which detects the small back-and-forth motion caused by an orbiting planet, and was reported in 2006. The system contains additional kn...

Mu Arae e is an outer planet in the multi-planet system surrounding Mu Arae, a Sun-like star roughly 50 light-years from Earth. It has a mass in the Jupiter range and was identified from changes in the star's radial velocity. The planet was reported as part of the system's early four-planet interpre...

Mu Arae d is a gas-giant exoplanet in the system of Mu Arae, a Sun-like star located roughly 50 light-years away. It was inferred from radial-velocity measurements and was included among the planets announced in the system's multi-planet interpretation around 2004. The planet is more massive than Ea...

HD 4308 b is a low-mass exoplanet detected through the radial-velocity method around HD 4308, a metal-poor G-type star. Its minimum mass is about 14 times that of Earth, placing it near the boundary between super-Earth and Neptune-class planets. The system was reported in 2005, when planets of this...

HD 154345 b is a long-period giant exoplanet orbiting the nearby G-type star HD 154345. Its orbit lies at approximately 1 astronomical unit from the star, and its mass and orbital distance have led astronomers to describe it as a Jupiter analog. The planet was reported in 2007 using precise measurem...

HD 190360 c is the inner, low-mass planet in the HD 190360 planetary system, which surrounds a G-type star. It was identified through radial-velocity measurements and has a mass in the super-Earth to Neptune-mass range. Its discovery was significant because it demonstrated that relatively small plan...

HD 160691 c is an exoplanet orbiting the G-type star HD 160691, also known as Mu Arae. With a minimum mass of roughly 14 Earth masses, it was reported in 2004 as one of the early Neptune-mass planets found around a Sun-like star. The planet was detected by measuring periodic changes in the host star...

HD 142 b is a gas-giant exoplanet orbiting HD 142, a solar-type star in the constellation Phoenix. It was detected through the radial-velocity method and has an orbital period of approximately 350 days, close to the length of Earth's year. The planet is part of a multi-planet system and was among th...

HD 168443 b is a massive giant exoplanet orbiting the G-type star HD 168443. Its minimum mass is about eight times that of Jupiter, and it completes an orbit in approximately 58 days on a notably eccentric path. The system is known for containing two massive companions detected through their gravita...

HD 217107 b is a giant exoplanet orbiting the G-type star HD 217107. It completes one orbit in about 7.1 days, placing it in the hot-Jupiter class of close-in giant planets. The planet was discovered through radial-velocity measurements reported in 1998, during the early period of confirmed exoplane...

HD 82943 c is a giant exoplanet orbiting the G-type star HD 82943, located about 89 light-years from Earth. It was discovered through radial-velocity observations and is in a 2:1 mean-motion resonance with the system's other known giant planet, HD 82943 b. This means the two planets complete their o...

HD 82943 b is a giant exoplanet orbiting the G-type star HD 82943, approximately 89 light-years from Earth. It was identified in 2001 through radial-velocity observations made with the CORALIE spectrograph at La Silla Observatory in Chile. The planet belongs to a multi-planet system and participates...

HD 190360 b is a gas-giant exoplanet orbiting the nearby star HD 190360, a G-type subgiant in the constellation Lyra. Its orbit has a period of roughly eight years, placing it much farther from its star than the short-period giants found in many early exoplanet surveys. The planet was detected throu...

HD 202206 b is a very massive companion of the solar-type star HD 202206. Its measured minimum mass is about seventeen times the mass of Jupiter, placing it near the boundary between the most massive planets and brown dwarfs. The object was discovered through radial-velocity observations, which dete...

HD 12661 b is a gas-giant exoplanet orbiting the star HD 12661, a K-type star in the constellation Aries. It is the inner known planet in a two-planet system and completes an orbit in roughly 263 days. The planet was identified through radial-velocity measurements, which track changes in the star's...

HD 108874 b is a gas-giant exoplanet orbiting the G-type star HD 108874. It was discovered through the radial-velocity method and has an orbital period of about 394 days, placing it near the distance from its star associated with the outer part of the habitable-zone region in some system models. The...

HD 74156 b is a gas-giant exoplanet orbiting the G-type star HD 74156. It is the inner known planet in a system with two reported giant planets and was detected by observing the host star's radial-velocity changes. The planet follows an eccentric orbit, meaning its distance from the star changes sub...