51 Pegasi b
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A hot Jupiter exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star 51 Pegasi.
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51 Pegasi b
- Exoplanets
51 Pegasi b, officially named Dimidium, is an extrasolar planet about 50 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. It was the first planet discovered orbiting a main-sequence star, the Sun-like 51 Pegasi, and became the prototype for hot Jupiters. Traces of water were discovered in its atmosphere in 2017. Its discovery contributed in part to the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Official name
- Dimidium
- Planet class
- Prototype for hot Jupiters
- Atmosphere
- Traces of water discovered in 2017
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- 51 Pegasi b (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q242309
- Text
- Card text is adapted from the English Wikipedia article by an automated summary. Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for its contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Article history and contributors
- Illustration
- By ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org). CC BY 4.0 · File page on Wikimedia CommonsESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org), ESO websiteModifications: Resized and converted to WebP
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