In 2009, NASA’s groundbreaking Kepler mission identified its first potential exoplanet.
Now, ten years later, the discovery of the planet—known as Kepler-1658-b—has finally been confirmed, according to a study published in the Astronomical Journal.
The telescope used the transit method to identify candidate planets. This involves looking for small dips in brightness as planets pass in front of their host star when observed from our viewpoint. But further analysis is required to confirm whether a planet is there or not. “Our new analysis, which uses stellar sound waves observed in the Kepler data to characterize the star, demonstrated that the star is in fact three times larger than previously thought,” Ashley Chontos, lead author of the study from the University of Hawai’i, said in a statement. “This in turn means that the planet is three times larger, revealing that Kepler-1658 b is actually a hot Jupiter.”
According to the findings, Kepler 1658-b is so close to its star that it completes an orbit once every 3.85 Earth days. If you were able to stand on the surface of the planet, its star would appear 60 times larger than the Sun looks from the Earth. In fact, the researchers predict that 1658-b will eventually collide with its star.
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