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Kepler-6 is a yellow giant situated in the constellation Cygnus. The star lies within the field of view of the Kepler Mission which discovered it as part of a NASA-led mission to discover Earth-like planets. The star which is slightly larger more metal-rich slightly cooler and more massive than the Sun is orbited by at least one extrasolar planet a Jupiter-sized planet named Kepler-6b that orbits closely to its star.