Planet-hosting stars in the Kepler field of view
| Star | Name | Discovery information | Adopted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIC 11446443 | TrES-2 | O'Donovan et al. (2006) | Stephen Colbert |
| KIC 10666592 | HAT-P-7 | Pal et al. (2008) | Wade B. Hergert |
| KIC 10748390 | HAT-P-11 | Bakos et al. (2010) | Spectrum Scientifics |
| KIC 11853905 | Kepler-4 | Borucki et al. (2010) | Exoplanetology.com |
| KIC 8191672 | Kepler-5 | Koch et al. (2010) | Ada Schuck |
| KIC 10874614 | Kepler-6 | Dunham et al. (2010) | Kyle Terry |
| KIC 5780885 | Kepler-7 | Latham et al. (2010) | Jonathan Willis Jarvis |
| KIC 6922244 | Kepler-8 | Jenkins et al. (2010) | Ian Clarkson |
| KIC 3323887 | Kepler-9 | Holman et al. (2010) | Sandra Harrop |
| KIC 10418224 | KOI-428 | Santerne et al. (2011) | Cardiac, Vascular & Thoracic Surgeons |
| KIC 11904151 | Kepler-10 | Batalha et al. (2011) | Celestial Being Ribbons Almark |
| KIC 6541920 | Kepler-11 | Lissauer et al. (2011) | Maria Lapina |
| KIC 11804465 | Kepler-12 | Fortney et al. (2011) | Hanane Benkirane |
| KIC 10264660 | Kepler-14 | Buchhave et al. (2011) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 11359879 | Kepler-15 | Endl et al. (2011) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 12644769 | Kepler-16 | Doyle et al. (2011) | Susan Church |
| KIC 10619192 | Kepler-17 | Désert et al. (2011) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 8644288 | Kepler-18 | Cochran et al. (2011) | Elise Shamblen |
| KIC 2571238 | Kepler-19 | Ballard et al. (2011) | Alfred Yesue |
| KIC 6850504 | Kepler-20 | Gautier et al. (2011) | Eilert Nilsson |
| KIC 3632418 | Kepler-21 | Howell et al. (2011) | Ivy Hietala |
| KIC 10593626 | Kepler-22 | Borucki et al. (2011) | Robert Ward |
| KIC 8561063 | KOI-961 | Muirhead et al. (2012) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 3231341 | Kepler-23 | Ford et al. (2012) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 11512246 | Kepler-24 | Ford et al. (2012) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 4349452 | Kepler-25 | Steffen et al. (2012) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 9757613 | Kepler-26 | Steffen et al. (2012) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 5792202 | Kepler-27 | Steffen et al. (2012) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 6949607 | Kepler-28 | Steffen et al. (2012) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 10358759 | Kepler-29 | Fabrycky et al. (2012) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 3832474 | Kepler-30 | Fabrycky et al. (2012) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 9347899 | Kepler-31 | Fabrycky et al. (2012) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 9787239 | Kepler-32 | Fabrycky et al. (2012) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 9458613 | Kepler-33 | Lissauer et al. (2012) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 8572936 | Kepler-34 | Welsh et al. (2012) | Available for a $100 donation |
| KIC 9837578 | Kepler-35 | Welsh et al. (2012) | Available for a $100 donation |
You can adopt one of these known planet-hosting stars for a $100 donation in support of our scientific research. Your adoption will be recorded in the text catalog, added to the placemark in Google Sky, and included in the table above. All planet-hosting stars are marked with a special blue icon in Google Sky. For the "Designation", please fill in your name as you would like it to appear in the table above and we will contact you by email to select one of these stars. New planet-hosting stars will be added to this table as the discoveries are announced.
You can find a list of stars with exoplanet "candidates" here. All candidates are available for a $25 donation until they are confirmed, when they will be added to the table above. Search the catalog to check for the availability of the star you want to adopt.
Early Adopters
Special thanks to everyone who adopted a star before the Kepler Input Catalog was released:
| Cherie Goff | John Clarey | Ariel Matty | Jonathan Metcalfe |
| Paola Paleari | Anita Mercedes Ryden | Mathias Bildhauer | Jerry Metcalfe |
| Dyanne Burke | Chance Hinds | Heidi Sanders | Todd Renner |
| Wendy Renner | Derek Frame | Devin Frame | Ashley Metcalfe |
| Brian Metcalfe | Christine Goff | Wes Goff | Mardee Goff |
| Danielle Goff | Addie Goff | Nick Wilder | Rodger Peer |
| Lola Peer | Sandra Ray | David Harper | Anna L. White |
| Steve C. White | Jane T. White | Oliver G. White | Angela Roberts |
| Michael R. Johnson | Gena M. McLellan | Jason Metcalfe | Wonmi Lauren Kim |
| Charmaine Kissinger | Frank Kelkis | Akash Jain | Alan Kott |
| Erin Bell | Christine Millott | Dave Salay | Kyle W. Dorsey |
| Yeni Alvarez | Trung Nguyen | Jacob Crabtree | Caleb Crabtree |
| Anna-Maria Graves | Yvonne Self | Joseph Lennox | Jack Gardiner |
| Jackson Dean Arnold | Christopher Hemendinger | Timothy Morriss | Danielle DiGiau |
| Roger Bensen | John C. Glidden Jr. | Janet Struthers | Simon Lindley |
| Anita Struthers | Christine Messerli | John Guittar | Rachel Chong Lee Peng |
| How Peng Jin | Stephanie Simmons | Max Thomas | Kieran Boucher |
| Diana Slager | Deborah Lamonea | Tony Lamonea | Katie Thompson |
| Devon Stoner | Scott Vogel | Joelle Pretty | Fay Edwin Mason |
| Anita Andersson | Francisco Burzi | Tom Kelly | Nikki Prusha |
| Tim Röder | Paul Gardella | Matthew Molnar | Eugene Brown |
| Aaron Zimmerman | Nathan Woodruff | Davis Chen | Cody Garges |
| Chris Meyers | Eric Cassidy | Gerard Saraber | Sina Morawej |
| Giampiero Campa | WebSentience, Inc. | Charles Lawrence | Alfred Whitehead |
| John Orlowski | Lars Thuring | Charles Knezevich | Javier Perez |
| Robert Markoski | James McGarity | Antonio Martins | Thomas Rothamel |
| Nick Petkovich | Corey O'Connor | Carsten Erickson | Gary Webber |
| Bobby Magee | Thomas Damgaard | Frederick Lafleche | Martin Wisely |
| Warren L Kolar | Ilya Akinfiev | Danny Schrader | Niranjan Niranjan |
| Matthew Lamoureux | Alan Batie | Christopher Ehrmann | John Gibbs |
| William Shuster | Glenn Barrett | Ben Smith | Jorrit Jongma |
| Ann Boon Leo | Grace Hoo | Tim McNally | Gwee Gek Lang |
| Marina Lagunova | Shohn Trojacek | Luke Morrill | Matthew Hosafros |
| Joshua Powers | Cristian Peralta Estrada | Assaf Rutenberg | Elaine Waldron |
| Siri Fardal | Benjamin Schirmer | Susan Kolar | Leif Sawyer |
| Saevar Ofjord Magnusson | Cassandra Rowan Moritz | Rob Nolen | Bohemians of Anchorage |
| Ryan Somma | Conor Nosal | Paul McDermott | Gabriella Cavajon |
| Dean Gilbert | Daevad Tajkowski | Catherine Hill | Jarred M. Braun |
| Adam Bozarth | Abbe Hubenak-McCrea | Ryan Doherty | Donald Tripp |
| Emanuel Melo | Lucia Gonzalez | Suzannah Kimbrel | Cathie Gallagher |
| Luke Beales | Per-Ivar Amundsen | Steve Thomas | Anthony Lam |
| Noriel Devera | Tatiana Skripka | Lutz Krebs | Alexander Hradetzky |
| Aaron Lenz | Peter Cunderlik | Emanuela Baldi | Andrew Conover |
| Justin Nichol | John Painter | Alyona Olshevskaya | Kimberly Lovelace |
| Ryan Doherty | Anonymous | Peri Litt | Shana Litt |
| Jeffrey Nikoletich | Holly Novell | Robert Ready | Andy Chung |
| Chrissie Bette | Sivon Raphael Urquhart | Tatiana Yvonne Urquhart | Elizabeth McCullough |
| Mason Orton | Brett Gray | Deann Joy Ronning | Christopher Dent |
| Victor Robinson | David Tucker | Sean McNeill | Helge Meyer Ryeng |
| Melissa Burkes-Livingston | Alex I. Slover | Christina Fuller | Venugopal Garimella |
| Debbie Frost | David Corry | Kristóf Soponyai | Tori Trinder |
| Rachel Stern | Deryck Urbas | Allison Byrum | Chiradeep Chhaya |
| Salony Agrawal | Stephen Lizcano | Brad Neuberg | Luciana Serio |
| Scott R. Campbell | William C. Dixon | Roger Maalouf | Ram Grihi Choudhary |
| Matthew Seashore | Mari Plikuhn | Eric Plikuhn | John S. Michael |
| Jillian "KIDD" Sanburg | Cole T. Rottweiler | Abhijeet Kolekar | James A. Gayhart |
| Andrew Andreasen | Rebecca Andreasen | Jeffrey Dickinson | Derek Janik |
| Cari Miller | Bentley Kassemi | Naeim Semsarilar | Rys Lardner |
| Ian Leonard | Beth Clark | Brett Chubb | Michelle Bass |
| Jennifer Ebert | Lode Vandevenne | Tomaž Vaupotič | Atticus Johnson Takashi Doyle |
| Alessio Nieri | Paul Smeddle | Carlos Rodrigues | Jon Hale |
| Luke Edwards | Honglei Li | Nils Egil Lie | Simon Bettison |
| Kristen Nicole Skelton | Jesse Caldwell | Qays Poonawala | Philip Bernstein |
| William North | Patrick Ouellet | Tor Willy Austerslatt | Tyler Ward |
| Daniel Lever | Wybo Wiersma | Patrick Lowry | Henk-Jaap Wagenaar |
| Marc Vieira Cardinal | Tyler Joy Ware | Jocelyne Lacombe | Mario Pépin |
| James Caceres | Michael Gorton | John Tougas | Orland Outland |
| Elizabeth Davidson | Lilly and Taylor Browning | Andrea Vezzoli | Gordon Celesta |
| Blair Mitchelmore | Simon Parker | Chris Twilleager | Mathieu Belanger |
| Diana Randall | Kevin Walsh | Genevieve Sanguinetti | Joseph Delekto |
| Chris Naunton | Michael Ryan | Isabelle Lachaux | Vivienne Lachaux |
| Ronan Kennedy | Ryan Carmody | Henry Reid | Londi Reid |
| Danielle Blance | John W. King | Jeanne Yturri | Thomas Fulmer |
| Christopher Robin | Ross Laurie | Rhian Collins | M. Francois Levaux-Tiffreau |
| Meara Collins | Meryem Benohoud-Badaut | Pétur Thors | Ilan Graicer |
| Geneviève Breault | Anthony F. Fiore | Dan Ciprian Todor | Chris Moriarty |
| Abby Frances Oliva | Sue Phippen | Miron Roth | Jean du Plessis |
| Jason Mathews | Heather Mathews | Connor Mathews | Kristine Tolentino |
| Sarah Victoria Adams | Cathy Bryant | Danielle Shaffer | Bhupesh Vohra |
| Michael Trammell | Matthew Clothier | Bryan Whitten | Randy Tran |
| Lyrise Devosiana | Bailey Ann Jungmann | Christopher O'Keefe | Frank Delaney |
| Scott Martin | Yugesh Vohra | Detrick Merz | Roberto Carlos Fernandez Gerhardt |
| Coral Polites | Jordan Marshall | Michael D. Johas Teener | Yvonne Bennings |
| Broadcaststuff.com | Jody Urbas | Sara Sinclair | Joshua Brody |
| Yanjun Cong | Daniel Gallant | Louise McCulloch | Jason Radcliff |
| Jeremiah Hahn | Delvin Hahn | David Barker | Lyle Barbato |
| Seda Tamur | Louis Scuderi | Revis McKenzie | Stephen King |
| Matthew Hicks | Ishan Jayawardene | Jacob Thomas Sievert | Cristino Ruiz |
| Andy Shaw | Steven Finn | Bjarni Dagur Thor Kárason | Mo O'Brien |
| Caro O'Brien | Kendra Longbrook | Dustin Papow | Conor Papow |
| Ralph A. Caruso | Donald B. Coles | Sarika Ravlekar | Rakesh Ravlekar |
| Ville Sinisalo | Jere Sinisalo | Eppu Sinisalo | Gloria and Marvin Fischer |
| BJ Switzer | Maria Adelaide Borromeo | Sonya Tang | Aaron Land |
| Jaason Engle | Joshua Fowell | Elizabeth Kamath | Sean Kamath |
| Tobias Kamath | Alisha Gard | Travis Mason | Paul Donovan |
| Robert Jordan Hawley | Stephanie Burger | Anja Burse | Stacey Haysler |
| Francene Aller | Anthony Luick | Kent Sanders | Carol Walker |
| Bridget Rule | Jakub Osika | Sophie Salvatore | Neal Vines |
| Martin Nydick | David "Beetle" Bailey | Wright Clarkson | Shane Brennan |
| Johnny Glidden | Wanda Anders | Michael Carmody | Suzzanne Gartner |
| Jeff Mortimer | Nancy Valdes | Zoe Strattman | Nicole and Anthony Fiore |
| Wyatt O'Connor | Tony Luick | Matthew J. Dallmeyer | Kristina Marie Beagle |
