List of Extrasolar Planet Extremes - Extremes From Earth's Viewpoint

Extremes From Earth's Viewpoint

Title Planet Star Data Notes
Most distant OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb OGLE-2005-BLG-390L 21,500 ± 3,300 light years
  1. An analysis of the lightcurve of the microlensing event PA-99-N2 suggests the presence of a planet orbiting a star in the Andromeda Galaxy.
  2. A controversial microlensing event of lobe A of the double gravitationally lensed Q0957+561 suggests that there is a planet in the lensing galaxy lying at redshift 0.355 (3.7 Gly).
Least distant Alpha Centauri Bb Alpha Centauri B 4.37 light years
  1. With a mass of about 1.1 times the size of Earth, it is strikingly similar in size to Earth.
  2. Stephane Udry of the Geneva Observatory, who heads the European planet-hunting team, said this means "there's a very good prospect of detecting a planet in the habitable zone that is very close to us."
Star with the brightest apparent magnitude with a planet Pollux b Pollux Apparent magnitude is 1.14

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