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Pegasus (constellation)

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extrasolar planet

extrasolar planet

planetary nebula

star in the constellation Pegasus

HAT-P-8b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 720 light years away in the constellation of Pegasus, orbiting the 10th magnitude star GSC 02757-01152. This planet was discovered by transit on December 5, 2008. Despite the designation as HAT-P-8b, it is the 11th planet discovered by the HATNet Project. The mass of the planet is 50% more than Jupiter while the radius is also 50% more than Jupiter. The mass of this planet is exact since the inclination of the orbit is known, typical for transiting planets. This is a so-called “hot Jupiter” because this Jupiter-like gas giant planet orbits

barred spiral galaxy

star in the constellation Pegasus

variable star in the constellation Pegasus

BX442 (Q2343-BX442) is a grand design spiral galaxy of type Sc. It has a companion dwarf galaxy. It is the most distant known grand design spiral galaxy in the universe, with a redshift of z=2.1765 ± 0.0001. It is commonly referred to as the oldest known grand design spiral galaxy in the universe,

NGC 7752 and NGC 7753

pair of Galaxies in the constellation of Pegasus

massive spiral galaxy

star system in the constellation Pegasus

WASP-10b is an extrasolar planet discovered in 2008 by SuperWASP using the transit method. It takes about 3 days to orbit around WASP-10. Follow-up radial velocity observations showed that it is three times more massive than Jupiter, while the transit observations showed that its radius is only 8% larger than Jupiter's, giving the planet a density more similar to the Moon than a normal gas giant. It is currently the only confirmed planet around WASP-10, as WASP-10c is still unconfirmed.

extrasolar planet

star in the constellation Pegasus

extrasolar planet

star in the constellation Pegasus

star in the constellation Pegasus

CTA 102, also known by its B1950 coordinates as 2230+114 (QSR B2230+114) and its J2000 coordinates as J2232+1143 (QSO J2232+1143), is a blazar-type quasar discovered in the early 1960s by a radio survey carried out by the California Institute of Technology. It has been observed by a large range of instruments since its discovery, including WMAP, EGRET, GALEX, VSOP and Parkes, and has been regularly imaged by the Very Long Baseline Array since 1995. It has also been detected in gamma rays, and a gamma-ray flare has been detected from it.

WASP-10 is a star 461 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. It hosts a transiting planet discovered by the SuperWASP project.

HAT-P-8 is a magnitude 10 star located 700 light-years away in Pegasus. It is a F-type star about 28% more massive than the Sun. Two red dwarf companions have been detected around HAT-P-8. The first has a spectral type of M5V and has a mass of . The second is even less massive, at , and its spectral type is M6V.

galaxy group di the constellation Pegasus

star in the constellation Pegasus

binary star system in the constellation Pegasus

type K main sequence star at a distance of 163 light-years

galaxy in the constellation Pegasus

star in the constellation Pegasus

star system in the constellation Pegasus

star in the constellation Pegasus

binary star system in the constellation Pegasus

extrasolar planet

WASP-60, also named Morava, is a F-type main-sequence star about 1,400 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The star's age is much younger than the Sun's at 1.7 billion years. WASP-60 is enriched in heavy elements, having 180% of the solar abundance of iron. The star does not have noticeable starspot activity, an unexpected observation for a relatively young star. The age of WASP-60 determined by different methods is highly discrepant though, and it may actually be an old star which experienced an episode of spin-up in the past.

star in the constellation Pegasus

star in the constellation Pegasus

star system in the constellation Pegasus

WASP-21, also named Tangra, is a G-type star (spectral type G3V) that has reached the end of its main sequence lifetime. It lies approximately 834 light-years away, in the constellation of Pegasus. The star is relatively metal-poor, having 40% of heavy elements compared to the Sun. Kinematically, WASP-21 belongs to the thick disk of the Milky Way. It has an exoplanet named WASP-21b.

star system in the constellation Pegasus

variable star in the constellation Pegasus

variable star in the constellation Pegasus

star in the constellation Pegasus

star in the constellation Pegasus

binary star system in the constellation Pegasus

star system in the constellation Pegasus

WASP-52, also named Anadolu, is a K-type main-sequence star about 570 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. It is older than the Sun at billion years, but it has a similar fraction of heavy elements. The star has prominent starspot activity, with 3% to 14% of the stellar surface covered by areas 575 K cooler than the rest of the photosphere.

binary star system in the constellation Pegasus

star in the constellation Pegasus

star in the constellation Pegasus

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