The first confirmed exoplanet is called 51 Pegasi b. It was discovered on October 6th 1995 by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz. Note: 51 Pegasi or 51 Pegasi a is the parent star.
51 Pegasi is about 50.9 light-years (15.6 parsecs) from us.
51 Pegasi is just as hot as our own, actually slightly hotter. Our Sun - 5,778 K 51 Pegasi - 5,804 K
The star they were observing, 51 Pegasi, moved back and forth only very slightly. Therefore, they knew the invisible object could not have enough mass to be a star. They deduced that it must be a planet.
It showed that there were solar systems similar to ours elsewhere in the galaxy.
The first confirmed exoplanet is called 51 Pegasi b. It was discovered on October 6th 1995 by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz. Note: 51 Pegasi or 51 Pegasi a is the parent star.
51 Pegasi is about 50.9 light-years (15.6 parsecs) from us.
51 Pegasi itself isn't an exoplanet, it's a Sun-like Star. But it does have an Exoplanet orbiting it, 51 Pegasi b (informally named Bellerophon.).
51 Pegasi B is an exoplanet orbiting a sun like star called 51 Pegasi.S Ori 70 - Is still not confirmed. It might be a brown dwarf, but it could be an exoplanet.
51 Pegasi is just as hot as our own, actually slightly hotter. Our Sun - 5,778 K 51 Pegasi - 5,804 K
There are hundreds of "exoplanets" (in orbit around stars other than Sol), but these don't have proper names, just designations. The usual convention is to add a lowercase letter to the designation of the star, so an object orbiting 51 Pegasi would be 51 Pegasi a, the next object 51 Pegasi b, and so on.
At least 28 planets were found in 2008, all of them exoplanets (i.e. planets oribiting stars other than the Sun). Exoplanets are generally named as follows: Technical star name + lower case letter denoting the order in which the planets are discovered around that star (starting with "b" because "A" stands for the star itself). For instance 51 Pegasi b means the first planet discovered orbiting the star 51 Pegasi.
The first confirmed detection was in 1992, with the discovery of several planets orbiting a pulsar. The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet orbiting a main-sequence star was made in 6th October 1995, when a giant planet (51 Pegasi b) was found in a four-day orbit around the nearby G-type star 51 Pegasi.
The star they were observing, 51 Pegasi, moved back and forth only very slightly. Therefore, they knew the invisible object could not have enough mass to be a star. They deduced that it must be a planet.
It's much closer to its star than Jupiter is to the Sun.
It showed that there were solar systems similar to ours elsewhere in the galaxy.
Yes, but only if the conditions are right. 51 Pegasi has an apparent magnitude [See Link] of 5.49. The faintest object the naked eye can see, has an apparent magnitude of 6.5 (in perfect conditions). Even with binoculars, the faintest object is 9.5. The larger the apparent magnitude, the dimmer the object is. Our Sun has an apparent magnitude of -26.73 (yes minus)