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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 Location of 51 Pegasi star in constellation, illustration. This chart shows the large northern constellation of Pegasus (The Winged Horse). The unremarkable faint star 51 Pegasi, which is circled in red and can be dimly seen with the naked eye, is orbited by 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet ever discovered around a normal star. 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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