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  2. PSR B1257+12 B - Wikipedia

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    On its discovery, the planet was designated PSR 1257+12 B and later PSR B1257+12 B. It was discovered before the convention that extrasolar planets receive designations consisting of the star's name followed by lower-case Roman letters starting from "b" was established. [7]

  3. Exoplanet - Wikipedia

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    The first confirmation of an exoplanet orbiting a main-sequence star was made in 1995, when a giant planet was found in a four-day orbit around the nearby star 51 Pegasi. Some exoplanets have been imaged directly by telescopes, but the vast majority have been detected through indirect methods, such as the transit method and the radial-velocity ...

  4. PSR B1257+12 - Wikipedia

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    In its first bulletin of July 2016, [15] the WGSN explicitly recognized the names of exoplanets and their host stars approved by the Executive Committee Working Group Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites, including the names of stars adopted during the 2015 NameExoWorlds campaign. This stellar remnant is now so entered in the IAU ...

  5. List of exoplanet firsts - Wikipedia

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    If one is a planet, it is the first planet orbiting a 'normal' star, possibly the first exoplanet directly imaged. First directly imaged extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star (infrared) AB Pictoris b AB Pictoris: 2005 [18] It has 10 ± 1 M J. [19] GQ Lupi b was found earlier. [20] May, however, be a brown dwarf companion.

  6. Iota Draconis b - Wikipedia

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    Iota Draconis b, formally named Hypatia (pronounced / h aɪ ˈ p eɪ ʃ i ə / or / h ɪ ˈ p eɪ ʃ ə /), is an exoplanet orbiting the K-type giant star Iota Draconis about 101.2 light-years (31 parsecs, or nearly 2.932 × 10 14 km) from Earth in the constellation Draco.

  7. List of multiplanetary systems - Wikipedia

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    Closest star to the Sun with exactly six [29] exoplanets, and closest K-type main sequence star to the Sun with a multiplanetary system. One of the oldest stars with a multiplanetary system, although it is still more metal-rich than the Sun. None of the known planets is in the habitable zone. [30] 61 Virginis: Virgo: 13 h 18 m 24.31 s: −18 ...

  8. Space-themed music - Wikipedia

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    In 1777, Joseph Haydn's opera "Il mondo della luna"("The world on the moon") premiered. Author and classical music critic David Hurwitz describes Joseph Haydn's choral and chamber orchestra piece, The Creation, composed in 1798, as space music, both in the sense of the sound of the music, ("a genuine piece of 'space music' featuring softly pulsating high violins and winds above low cellos and ...

  9. PSR B1257+12 A - Wikipedia

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    On its discovery, the planet was designated PSR 1257+12 A and later PSR B1257+12 A. It was discovered before the convention that extrasolar planets receive designations consisting of the star's name followed by lower-case Roman letters starting from "b" was established. [6]