NASA's Kepler satellite trails the Earth and continually observes a portion of the sky between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra.

[5] After the initial detection of a transit signal by Kepler, follow-up observations were taken to confirm the planetary nature of the candidate.

Speckle imaging by the WIYN Telescope was used to determine the amount of light from nearby, background stars that was present.

Radial velocity data was taken by HIRES at the Keck I telescope in order to determine the mass of the planet.

[1] As a result, Kepler-6b is strongly irradiated by its star, heating its atmosphere to a temperature of 1660 K and puffing it up to a size 1.3 times that of Jupiter.