From other planetary systems which is the biggest planet discovered and how close is it to that star?

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It is kepler 186f planet which lie in same golden zone as earth and have maximum probability to sustain a carbon based life.It is a five planet solar system namely a, b, c, d, f with f similar to earth.
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The largest planet ever discovered is also one of the strangest and theoretically should not even exist, scientists say.Dubbed TrES-4, the planet is about 1.7 times the size of Jupiter and belongs to a small subclass of "puffy" planets that have extremely low densities.Its mean density is only about...
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The largest planet ever discovered is also one of the strangest and theoretically should not even exist, scientists say.Dubbed TrES-4, the planet is about 1.7 times the size of Jupiter and belongs to a small subclass of "puffy" planets that have extremely low densities.Its mean density is only about 0.2 grams per cubic centimeter, or about the density of balsa wood,And because of the planet's relatively weak pull on its upper atmosphere, some of the atmosphere probably escapes in a comet-like tail. read less
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Hi Mukund. Planets in other planetary systems are called "exoplanets", and WASP-17b is considered as the largest exoplanet that we've discovered so far. The star it orbits around is called WASP-17. The distance between the WASP-17b planet and the WASP-17 star is about 77 lakh kilometres (7.7 x 10^6 km)....
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Hi Mukund. Planets in other planetary systems are called "exoplanets", and WASP-17b is considered as the largest exoplanet that we've discovered so far. The star it orbits around is called WASP-17. The distance between the WASP-17b planet and the WASP-17 star is about 77 lakh kilometres (7.7 x 10^6 km). For comparison, the distance between Earth and our star the Sun is nearly 15 crore kilometres! read less
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Kepler-10c, a planet about 17 times more massive than Earth. Such hefty worlds were thought to be primarily gaseous, but Kepler-10c is rocky. Kepler-10c is therefore the first known member of a new class of exoplanets, the "mega-Earths." This "Godzilla of Earths," as one of its discoverers described...
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Kepler-10c, a planet about 17 times more massive than Earth. Such hefty worlds were thought to be primarily gaseous, but Kepler-10c is rocky. Kepler-10c is therefore the first known member of a new class of exoplanets, the "mega-Earths." This "Godzilla of Earths," as one of its discoverers described Kepler-10c, orbits a sunlike star that lies about 560 light-years from Earth. read less
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