51 Pegasi, also called Helvetiois and HD 8729, is 50.9 light years between the stars Scheat and Markab. In October, Pegasus is easy to find because it's already “up” at dusk in the ...

The story of 51 Pegasi b. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University ...

51 Pegasi b was discovered on October 6, 1995, and 25 years later, the exoplanet count has grown tremendously. By the most recent tally, there are 4,354 known exoplanets, including 712 multi ...

Webber’s romantic spin-off from the Twin Crowns series focuses on Captain Marino Pegasi, an ocean explorer who goes on a desperate search for a cure when his sister, Celeste, falls gravely ill.

Bellerophon is so close to 51 Pegasi that its orbital period is only 4 Earth days long. This planet is fast… and it’s hot. Temperatures on Bellerophon can reach upwards of 3,632°F (2,000°C).

The discovery of 51 Pegasi b, as it was called, was just the beginning. The astronomy community was witnessing “A Parade of New Planets,” declared a headline in Scientific American in 1996.

On Oct. 6, 1995, the discovery of 51 Pegasi b in the constellation Pegasus - a planet about half the size of Jupiter approximately 50 light years away - was announced in the magazine Nature.

The II Pegasi flare was energetic enough to create a false alarm for a burst detection. Scientists quickly knew this was a different kind of event, however, when the flare overwhelmed Swift’s X ...

Yet Mayor and Queloz found 51 Pegasi b to be orbiting about ten times closer to its host star than Mercury is to the Sun (Fig. 1). One possible explanation is that the planet formed farther out ...

The Heising-Simons Foundation has awarded 51 Pegasi b Fellowships to Emily Martin and Melodie Kao to support their postdoctoral research in astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz starting in fall ...