Artist's Impression of the Exoplanet 51 Pegasi b (IMAGE)
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This artist's view shows the hot Jupiter exoplanet 51 Pegasi b, sometimes referred to as Bellerophon, which orbits a star about 50 light-years from Earth in the northern constellation of Pegasus (the Winged Horse). This was the first exoplanet around a normal star to be found in 1995. Twenty years later this object was also the first exoplanet to be be directly detected spectroscopically in visible light.
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ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)
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