CoRoT-17b 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 2011. It is a hot

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-sized planet orbiting a G2V star with T_e = 5740 K, M = 1.04 M_☉, R = 1.59 R_☉, and near-solar metallicity. It has an estimated age between 9.7 and 11.7 Gyr.

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Hot Jupiters Transiting exoplanets Exoplanets discovered in 2011 17b {{Exoplanet-stub