Night Sky Around The Star 51 Pegasi
by Digitized Sky Survey 2/european Southern Observatory/science Photo Library
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Night Sky Around The Star 51 Pegasi
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Digitized Sky Survey 2/european Southern Observatory/science Photo Library
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Night sky around the star 51 Pegasi in the northern constellation of Pegasus (The Winged Horse). This star can be dimly seen with the naked eye. It is orbited by 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet ever discovered around a normal star. It was discovered in 1995. Twenty years later this object was also the first exoplanet to be be directly detected spectroscopically in visible light. Part of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their discovery of this planet in 1995.
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