Kepler 7b (RA 19h41m Dec +41)

Kepler-7b is one of the first five exoplanets to be confirmed by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, and was confirmed in the first 33.5 days of Kepler's science operations.[3] It orbits a star slightly hotter and significantly larger than the Sun that is expected to soon reach the end of the main sequence.[3] Kepler-7b is a hot Jupiter that is about half the mass of Jupiter, but is nearly 1.5 times its size; at the time of its discovery, Kepler-7b was the second most diffuse planet known, surpassed only by WASP-17b.[3] It orbits its host star every five days at a distance of approximately 0.06 AU (9,000,000 km; 5,600,000 mi). Kepler-7b was announced at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society on January 4, 2010. It is the first extrasolar planet to have a crude map of cloud coverage.[7][8][9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-7b 

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 Larger than Jupiter but less dense.

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