Kepler-70, also known as KIC 5807616 and KOI-55, is a star about 3,600 light-years (1,100 parsecs) away in the constellation Cygnus, with an apparent visual magnitude of 14.87.
[11] On December 21, 2011, evidence for two extremely short-period planets, Kepler-70b and Kepler-70c (also known as KOI-55 b and KOI-55 c), was announced by Charpinet et al. based on observations from the Kepler space telescope.
[12] Alternatively, there may only have been one gas giant engulfed in this way, with the rocky/metallic core having survived evaporation but fragmented inside the star.
However, later research[7] suggested that what had been detected was not in fact the reflection of light from exoplanets, but stellar pulsation "visible beyond the cut-off frequency of the star."
Further research[8] indicated that star pulsation modes were indeed the more likely explanation for the signals found in 2011, and that the two exoplanets probably did not exist.