CoRoT-2

CoRoT -2, CoRoT- Exo - formerly called 2 is an approximately 1000 light- years from Earth remote later main-sequence star in the constellation Aquila. It has an apparent magnitude of 12.6 mag. He is accompanied in 2007 discovered exoplanets, called CoRoT -2 b from a.

Exoplanet

CoRoT- 2b, CoRoT- Exo -2 formerly called b, is an extrasolar planet that orbits the central star with a period of 1.74 days at a distance of about 0,029 astronomical units. He has a mass of about 3.3 Jupiter masses and is a hot Jupiter. He was discovered with the help of the French CoRoT space telescope, so by the transit method. He was the second exoplanet discovered by CoRoT.