Exoplanetology (metapsyche)

Exoplanet

Type History
Also known as
  • Extra-Solar Planet,
  • Extrasolar Planet
An Exoplanet (extra-solar planet) is a planet outside our solar system As of March 2008, 277 exoplanets have been detected. The vast majority were detected through various indirect methods rather than actual imaging. Most of them are massive giant... more

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14 Herculis b     1998 14 Herculis
14 Herculis b is an extrasolar planet approximately 59 light-year away in the constellation of Hercules. The planet was found orbiting the star 14 Herculis, with a mass that would likely make the planet a Jovial planet roughly the same size as...
18 Del b   Celestial Object      
2M1207 b          
4 Uma b   Celestial Object      
47 Ursae Majoris b 47 Ursae Majoris b Celestial Object 1996  
47 Ursae Majoris b is an extrasolar planet approximately 46 light-year away in the constellation of Ursa Major. The planet was discovered located in a long-period around the star 47 Ursae Majoris. The planet is currently the innermost known planet...
47 Uma c   Celestial Object    
47 Ursae Majoris c is an extrasolar planet orbiting the Sun-like star 47 Ursae Majoris.
51 Pegasi b     51 Pegasi
51 Pegasi b, also unofficially named Bellerophon and or abbreviated as 51 Peg b, is an extrasolar planet approximately 50 light-year away in the constellation of Pegasus. 51 Pegasi b was the first planet to be discovered orbiting a Sun-like star (51...
55 Cnc b   Celestial Object      
55 Cnc c   Celestial Object      
55 Cnc d   Celestial Object      
55 Cancri e Newneptune nasa big      
55 Cancri e is an extrasolar planet with a mass similar to that of Neptune orbiting the Sun-like star 55 Cancri A. It takes less than three day to complete an orbit and is the innermost known planet in its planetary system. 55 Cancri e was...
55 Cancri f   Celestial Object    
55 Cancri f, also cataloged as Rho Cancri f, is an extrasolar planet approximately 41 light-year away in the constellation of Cancer (the Crab). 55 Cancri f is the fourth known planet (in order of distance) from the star 55 Cancri, and is currently...
70 Virginis b     1996 70 Virginis
70 Virginis b is an extrasolar planet approximately 60 light-year away in the constellation of Virgo. Announced in 1996 by Geoffrey Marcy and R. Paul Butler, 70 Virginis was one of the first stars confirmed to have planets orbiting it. When first...
AB Pic b   Celestial Object      
BD-10 3166 b          
ChaHa8 b   Celestial Object      
COROT-Exo-1 b   Celestial Object    
COROT-Exo-1b, sometimes cataloged as CoRoT-Exo-1b or GSC 04804-02268b, is an extrasolar planet approximately 1,560 light-year away in the constellation of Monoceros. The planet was discovered orbiting the yellow dwarf star COROT-Exo-1 in May of 2007...
COROT-Exo-2 b        
| COROT-Exo-2b is the second extrasolar planet to be detected by the French-led COROT mission, which orbits the star COROT-Exo-2 at a distance of 930 light year from Earth towards the constellation Serpens. Its discovery was announced on 20...
eps Tau b   Celestial Object      
Epsilon Eridani b   Celestial Object    
Epsilon Eridani b, often cataloged as HD 22049 b, is an extrasolar planet approximately 10 light-year away in the constellation of Eridanus (the River). Orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, this planet is currently the closest confirmed planet to the...
Gamma Cephei Ab        
Gamma Cephei Ab, occasionally cataloged as Errai Ab, is an extrasolar planet approximately 45 light-year away in the constellation of Cepheus (the King). The planet was confirmed to orbit Gamma Cephei in 2002, but was suspected to be a planet around...
GJ 3021 b   Celestial Object      
GJ 317 b   Celestial Object      
GJ 436 b   Celestial Object      
GJ 674 b   Celestial Object      
GJ 849 b   Celestial Object      
Gliese 581 b An extrasolar neptune compared to Jupiter (right) and Earth (left)     Gliese 581
Gliese 581b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star Gliese 581. The planet was discovered by a team of French and Swiss astronomer, who announced their findings on November 30 2005 as a discovery of one of the smallest extrasolar planet ever...
Gliese 581 c Сравнение размеров Глизе 581 c и Земли. Celestial Object   Gliese 581
Gliese 581 c , also cataloged as HO Librae c and or Wolf 562 c, is a "super-earth" or large terrestrial extrasolar planet orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581. Assuming the planet's mass is close to the lower limit determined by radial velocity...
Gliese 581 d Gliese 581 d-v1 Celestial Object   Gliese 581
Gliese 581 d , also cataloged as HO Librae d, is a plausible extrasolar planet approximately 20 light-year away in the constellation of Libra. Because of its mass, the planet is classified as a super-Earth planet. Because the planet orbits in the...
Gl 86 b   Celestial Object