CoRoT-7b (previously named CoRoT-Exo-7b) [3][4] is an exoplanet orbiting the star CoRoT-7 in the constellation of Monoceros, 489 light-years (150 parsecs) from Earth. It was first detected …

Oct 24, 2024 · CoRoT-7 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. Its mass is 4.07661 Earths, it takes 0.9 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.017016 AU from its star. Its …

Jun 6, 2013 · Discovered in February 2009 by the Convection, Rotation and Planetary Transits (CoRoT) satellite, a mission led by the French Space Agency, CoRoT-7b takes just 20.4 hours …

A third planet CoRoT-7d, initially proposed in a 2010 study, [12] was confirmed in 2022. [13] The discovery of the inner planet was made using the transit method by the CoRoT program.

CoRoT-7b, the first extrasolar planet that was shown to be a rocky planet like Earth. CoRoT-7b orbits a main-sequence star, CoRoT-7, of spectral type K0 (an orange star, cooler than the …

Aug 24, 2020 · But CoRoT-7b orbits its star at a distance that’s about one twenty-third that of the Sun and Mercury. It completes a full orbit in around twenty Earth hours; and in one Earth …

Sep 16, 2009 · Back in February, astronomers announced the discovery of an alien planet dubbed CoRoT-7b. The discovery came from the French-built satellite CoRoT (short for …

Mar 28, 2019 · The exoplanet named Corot-7B is by far one of the strangest. On Earth, we have seen some weird things fall from the sky like blood-colored rain to tennis ball-sized hailstones, …

COROT-7b is an exoplanet, and is considered one of the "most interesting planets found outside our solar system yet". This is the first "Super-Earth" discovered and the 7th planet found by …

Sep 16, 2009 · CoRoT-7b earns another distinction as the closest known exoplanet to its host star, which also makes it the fastest — it orbits its star at a speed of more than 750 000 …