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    51 Pegasi b, officially named Dimidium /dɪˈmɪdiəm/, is an extrasolar planet approximately 50 light-years (15 parsecs) away in the constellation of Pegasus...
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  • the first main-sequence star found to have an exoplanet (designated 51 Pegasi b, officially named Dimidium) orbiting it. The star's apparent magnitude...
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    SWEEPS-11 (redirect from SWEEPS-11 b)
    The planet orbits at about 1.75 times closer to the star than 51 Pegasi b is to 51 Pegasi, taking only 1.8 days or 43 hours to orbit the star. It is also...
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    Michel Mayor in 1995, he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi. For this discovery, he shared the 2019...
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    best-known hot Jupiters is 51 Pegasi b. Discovered in 1995, it was the first extrasolar planet found orbiting a Sun-like star. 51 Pegasi b has an orbital period...
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  • opportunity, and human rights. It also funds a science fellowship known as the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship, and the American Mosaic Journalism Prize. It does not accept...
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    magnetospheric radio emissions were detected from the planet either. 51 Pegasi b YZ Ceti another extra solar planet with evidence of magnetic fields HAT-P-11b...
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    b is estimated as 0.96 ± 0.07 RJ. In spite of names of some exoplanets, derived from theirs host stars Flamsteed designations (for example, 51 Pegasi...
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  • stars by constellation Final Results of NameExoWorlds Public Vote Released B.-C. Lee; I. Han; M.-G. Park (2012). "Planetary companions orbiting M giants...
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    masses of 0.02, 4.3, and 3.9 times that of Earth, by pulsar timing. When 51 Pegasi b, the first planet found around a star still undergoing fusion, was discovered...
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    Square of Pegasus. Twelve star systems have been found to have exoplanets. 51 Pegasi was the first Sun-like star discovered to have an exoplanet companion...
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    exomoon around HD 189733 b. Dimidium (51 Pegasi b) HD 2039 b HD 149026 b Kepler-186f Osiris (HD 209458 b) WASP-3b WASP-12b WASP-189 b Bouchy, F.; et al. (2005)...
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    that orbit close to their parent stars, like 51 Pegasi b—and extremely eccentric orbits, such as HD 20782 b. The discovery of brown dwarfs and planets larger...
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    identified 51 Pegasi b, a "Hot Jupiter" in the constellation Pegasus. Although planets had previously been detected orbiting pulsars, 51 Pegasi b was the...
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  • drawback, with Gamma Cephei b being unconfirmed until 2002; while the PSR B1257+12 planets orbit a pulsar. This leaves 51 Pegasi b (discovered and confirmed...
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    in 2002. 55 Cancri b is in a short-period orbit, though not so extreme as that of the previously detected hot Jupiter 51 Pegasi b. The orbital period...
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    of the nearby eccentric giant planet. 51 Pegasi b Tau Boötis b 55 Cancri b 47 Ursae Majoris b Upsilon Andromedae b List of exoplanets discovered before...
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    Didier Queloz in 1995, he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star, 51 Pegasi. For this achievement, they were awarded...
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    "Zarmina's World" or "Zarmina's Planet"; and HD 209458 b, occasionally referred to as "Osiris." 51 Pegasi b PSR 1257+12 Pulsar planet List of exoplanets discovered...
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    Cancri b and the planet orbiting Tau Boötis. Like 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet discovered around a normal star, Upsilon Andromedae b orbits...
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  • (mollusc), a genus of Paleozoic mollusc in the family Bellerophontidae 51 Pegasi b, nicknamed Bellerophon, the first exosolar planet discovered around a...
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    Direct imaging of Epsilon Eridani b with the James Webb Space Telescope is planned. 47 Ursae Majoris b 51 Pegasi b List of nearest exoplanets The eccentricity...
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    radiation from the poles of Tau Boötis b a signature of a planetary magnetic field. 51 Pegasi b 70 Virginis b Galieo Taphao Thong Saffar YZ Ceti another...
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    "Evidence for a spectroscopic direct detection of reflected light from 51 Peg b". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 576 (2015): A134. arXiv:1504.05962. Bibcode:2015A&A...
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  • very close to the star at a similar distance from the star as 51 Pegasi b is from 51 Pegasi. As in consequence, it takes 4.0845 days to complete an orbit...
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    "Evidence for a spectroscopic direct detection of reflected light from 51 Pegasi b". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 576: A134. arXiv:1504.05962. Bibcode:2015A&A...
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  • Jupiter" meaning that it does not orbit very near the star like the famous 51 Pegasi b but further out and its orbit is very oval-shaped. The mean distance...
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    international team of astronomers. The astronomers studied light from 51 Pegasi b – the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a main-sequence star (a Sunlike...
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    ocean planet with hydrogen-helium atmosphere. 5.8 billion years (8 Gya): 51 Pegasi b also known as Dimidium, forms – first planet discovered orbiting a main...
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    b, of over six Jupiter masses, actually makes either of these scenarios more likely than if the planet was about Jupiter's mass or less. 51 Pegasi b Iota...
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