51 Pegasi

51 Pegasi is the (Flamsteed designation) name of a Sun-like star 14.7 parsecs (47.9 light-years) from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus. It was the first Sun-like star to be found to have a planet orbiting it, a discovery that was announced in 1995.

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The exoplanet's discovery was announced on October 6 1995 by Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz in Nature, volume 378, page 355. The discovery was made with the radial velocity method at the Observatoire de Gen?ve.

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Flamsteed designation: Flamsteed designations for stars are similar to Bayer designations, except that they use numbers instead of Greek letters. Each star is assigned a number and the Latin genitive of the constellation it lies in (see List of constellations for a list of constellations and the genitive forms of their na...

Sun: :: For the astrological significance of the Sun, see Solar system in astrology....

Parsec: The parsec (symbol pc) is a unit of length used in astronomy. It stands for "parallax of one arc second"....