CoRoT-7

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CoRoT-7 is a K0-type star, meaning it's an orange star cooler than our Sun, located about 500 light-years away. This star is orbited by at least two rocky planets, CoRoT-7b and CoRoT-7c, discovered by the French satellite CoRoT. CoRoT-7b is notable as the first confirmed rocky exoplanet similar to Earth, with a radius about 1.68 times that of Earth and a mass 4.8 times greater. It orbits its star extremely closely, completing a revolution in just 0.85 days, resulting in a surface temperature of approximately 2,000 °C (3,600 °F). These types of exoplanets larger than Earth but not gas giants are classified as "super-Earths".12

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CoRoT-7b
CoRoT-7b orbits a main-sequence star, CoRoT-7, of spectral type K0 (an orange star, cooler than the Sun) that is about 500 light-years from Earth. CoRoT-7 was discovered in 2009 by the French satellite CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and Planetary Transits), when it passed in front of its star. CoRoT-7b orbits its…
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CoRoT-7b orbits a main-sequence star, CoRoT-7, of spectral type K0 (an orange star, cooler than the Sun) that is about 500 light-years from Earth. CoRoT-7 was discovered in 2009 by the French satellite CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and Planetary Transits), when it passed in front of its star. CoRoT-7b orbits its…
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