Hot Jupiter Exoplanet 51 Pegasi B
by ESO/Martin Kornmesser/Nick Risinger
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Hot Jupiter Exoplanet 51 Pegasi B
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ESO/Martin Kornmesser/Nick Risinger
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Photograph - Photograph
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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. Release date April 22, 2015.
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September 10th, 2015
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