Kepler-67 is a star in the
open cluster
An open cluster is a type of star cluster made of tens to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud and have roughly the same age. More than 1,100 open clusters have been discovered within the Milky Way galaxy, and ...
NGC 6811[ in the ]constellation
A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms Asterism (astronomy), a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object.
The first constellati ...
Cygnus. It has slightly less mass than the Sun
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and has one confirmed planet, slightly smaller than Neptune
Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun. It is the List of Solar System objects by size, fourth-largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 t ...
, announced in 2013.[
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Planetary system
References
External links
Kepler-67, The Open Exoplanet CatalogueKepler 67, Exoplanet.eu
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G-type main-sequence stars
Cygnus (constellation)
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Planetary transit variables
Planetary systems with one confirmed planet