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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity 51 Pegasi b exoplanet, illustration. This 'hot Jupiter' 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. It was discovered in 1995. Twenty years later this object was also the first exoplanet to be be directly detected spectroscopically in visible light. Part of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their discovery of this planet in 1995.

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