:INFO
Gas giant around Kepler-1979
It is 2.62 times Jupiter's radius, closest in size to Jupiter. A year there lasts 18.51 days, on an orbit 3 times closer to its star than Mercury is to the Sun. Its equilibrium temperature is 683 K, hotter than any desert. The host star Kepler-1979 runs at 5942 K with 1.03 times the Sun's mass.

:STATS
[icon:TARGET] Radius | 29.33 Earth radii
[icon:FIRE] Equilibrium temperature | 683 K (measured)
[icon:CLOCK] One year | 18.51 days
[icon:BOLT] Orbit radius | 0.1383 AU
[icon:STAR] Host star | Kepler-1979 at 5942 K
[icon:USERS] Distance | 3510 light-years
[icon:TRENDING_DOWN] Starlight blocked | 8.200% at each transit

:PATH
What a crossing measures
The fraction of starlight blocked sets the radius against the star's.

:COUNTER
2.6x Jupiter: among the largest planets measured

:CHECKLIST
Known and unknown, as the archive has it
[ ] A measured radius. Yes.
[ ] A measured mass. No.
[ ] A density, so rock and gas can be told apart. No.
[ ] An orbital distance. Yes.
[ ] A temperature someone observed rather than calculated. Yes.
[ ] The shape of the orbit. Yes.

:NOTE
The detection is a shadow crossing a disc. Shadows have no weight, which is the whole reason the mass column is empty.

:NOTE
Found by Kepler in 2023. Kepler's method needed repetition, not brightness. It could find small planets around faint stars, provided they came round quickly enough to be seen twice.

:LINK
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/overview/Kepler-1979%20b
NASA Exoplanet Archive: source data, including the values not used here