List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 5

Kepler-2 is a star in the northern constellation of Cygnus the swan that is orbited by a planet found to be unequivocally within the star’s habitable zone. It is located […]

Kepler-31 is a star in the northern constellation of Cygnus the swan that is orbited by a planet found to be unequivocally within the star’s habitable zone. It is located […]

Kepler-30 is a star in the northern constellation of Lyra. It is located at the celestial coordinates: Right Ascension 19h 01m 08.076s Declination +38° 56′ 50.26″. With an apparent visual […]

KOI-314 also known as Kepler-138 is a red dwarf located in the constellation Lyra 200 light years from Earth. It is located within the field of vision of the Kepler […]

Tau7 Eridani is a star in the constellation Eridanus. Its apparent magnitude is 5.24. Located around 76.92 parsecs (250.9 ly) distant it is a blue-white main-sequence star of spectral type […]

Kepler-78 is a 12th magnitude star in the constellation Cygnus. It is 27% smaller in radius than the Sun. It has a temperature of 5143K.[citation needed] A planet called Kepler-78b […]

(192642) 1999 RD32 provisionally known as 1999 RD32 is a near-Earth asteroid and potentially hazardous object. It was discovered on 8 September 1999 by Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) at […]

NASA’s Magellan spacecraft mission discovered that Venus has a geologically young surface with a relatively uniform age of 500±200 Ma (million years). The age of Venus was revealed by the […]

PSR J0738-4042 is the first pulsar observed to have been affected by asteroids.It was originally discovered in 1968. In 2013 scientists at CSIRO announced that they had observed changes in […]

Kepler-61 is a 15th magnitude star in the constellation Cygnus. It is a young star with an age of 1 billion years. It is slightly denser than the sun with […]