About this world
CoRoT-10 b is a gas giant orbiting CoRoT-10, an orange dwarf (type K1V) 1.1 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 0.97 times the size of Jupiter and holds 2.8 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 13.2 days at 0.11 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.53).
Its equilibrium temperature is about 600 K (327 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.
It was discovered in 2010 by transit with CoRoT. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.