Artist's Concept of a Kepler-1658-like System (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Artist's Concept of a Kepler-1658-like System

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Sound waves propagating through the stellar interior were used to characterize the star and the planet. Kepler-1658b, orbiting with a period of just 3.8 days, was the first exoplanet candidate discovered by Kepler nearly 10 years ago.

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Gabriel Perez Diaz/Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

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