CoRoT-10b is a transiting
exoplanet
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first possible evidence of an exoplanet was noted in 1917 but was not recognized as such. The first confirmation of detection occurred in 1992. A different planet, init ...
found by the
CoRoT space telescope in 2010.
It is an
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but ...
-sized planet orbiting
K1V star with T
e = 5075K, M = 0.89
M☉, R = 0.79
R☉, above solar metallicity. It has an estimated age below 3.0 Gyr.
References
Hot Jupiters
Transiting exoplanets
Exoplanets discovered in 2010
10b
Aquila (constellation)
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