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HAT-P-1b planet - Artist view

by

M.Carroll/Novapix

Reference

a-exo99-00540

Date

2007-02-23

Artist concept of the HAT-P-1b, discovered in September 2006. It is an extrasolar planet orbiting abinary star system located 450 light years away from Earth in the constellation Lacerta and has the lowest density of any known extrasolar planet.