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  2. Epsilon Eridani - Wikipedia

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    Epsilon Eridani is a target for planet finding programs because it has properties that allow an Earth-like planet to form. Although this system was not chosen as a primary candidate for the now-canceled Terrestrial Planet Finder , it was a target star for NASA's proposed Space Interferometry Mission to search for Earth-sized planets. [ 131 ]

  3. Epsilon Eridani b - Wikipedia

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    Epsilon Eridani b, also known as AEgir , [4] is an exoplanet approximately 10.5 light-years away orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, in the constellation of Eridanus (the River). The planet was discovered in 2000, and as of 2024 remains the only confirmed planet in its planetary system .

  4. Epsilon Indi - Wikipedia

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    Epsilon Indi, Latinized from ε Indi, is a star system located at a distance of approximately 12 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Indus. The star has an orange hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.674. [ 2 ]

  5. Epsilon Indi Ab - Wikipedia

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    Epsilon Indi Ab is a gas giant exoplanet orbiting the star Epsilon Indi A, about 11.9 light-years away in the constellation of Indus. The planet was confirmed to exist in 2018. [ 1 ] It orbits at around 30 AU (almost as far as Neptune from the Sun) with a period of around 180 years and a relatively high eccentricity of 0.4, and has a mass ...

  6. List of nearest exoplanets - Wikipedia

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    Epsilon Indi Ab, 12 light-years away, with its parent star Epsilon Indi A blacked out, as pictured by JWST in 2023. [1] Distribution of nearest known exoplanets as of March 2018 There are 7,026 known exoplanets , or planets outside the Solar System that orbit a star, as of July 24, 2024; only a small fraction of these are located in the ...

  7. List of directly imaged exoplanets - Wikipedia

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    In many cases it is not possible to have an exact value, and an estimated range is instead provided. The coldest and oldest planet directly imaged is Epsilon Indi Ab, which has six times Jupiter's mass, an effective temperature of 275 K, and an age of about 3.5 Ga. This list includes the four members of the multi-planet system that orbit HR 8799.

  8. Shiniest exoplanet ever found has reflective metal clouds - AOL

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    A European Space Agency satellite has observed the shiniest exoplanet ever discovered. The scorching world has reflective clouds made of silicates and titanium.

  9. Eridanus (constellation) - Wikipedia

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    Epsilon Eridani (the proper name is Ran [2]) is a star with one extrasolar planet similar to Jupiter. It is an orange-hued main-sequence star of magnitude 3.7, 10.5 light-years from Earth. Its one planet, with an approximate mass of one Jupiter mass, has a period of 7 years. [1]