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| Pegasus | |
| Abbreviation | Peg |
| Genitive | Pegasi |
| Meaning in English | the winged Horse |
| Right ascension | 23 h |
| Declination | +15° |
| Visible to latitude | Between +90° and −65° |
| Best visible | October |
| Area - Total | Ranked 7th 1121 sq.deg. |
| Number of stars with apparent magnitude < 3 | 5 |
| Brightest star - Apparent magnitude | Markab (α Peg) 2.51 |
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Pegasus (the winged horse) is a northern constellationOrion is a remarkable constellation, visible from most places on the globe (but not always the whole year long). A constellation is a group of stars visibly related to each other in a particular configuration. In three-dimensional space, most of the stars, named after the mythological PegasusAlternate meanings: Pegasus (disambiguation In Greek mythology, Pegasus or Pegasos was a winged horse that was the foal of Poseidon, in his role as horse-god and the Gorgon Medusa. Descriptions vary as to the winged stallion's birth, some say that he spra. It is one of the 88 modern constellations, and was also one of the 48 constellations listed by PtolemyThis article is about the geographer and astronomer Ptolemy. For Alexander the Great's general, see Ptolemy I of Egypt. For others, see Ptolemy (disambiguation). Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Klaudios Ptolemaios; A. circa 85 circa 165), known in English as.
Pegasus' three brightest stars together with Alpha Andromedae form the large asterism known as the Square of Pegasus. A star in this constellation, 51 Pegasi51 Pegasi is the name of a Sun-like star in the constellation of Pegasus 14. 7 parsecs (47. 9 light-years) from Earth. This was the first Sun-like star that was shown to have a planet orbiting it, a discovery that was announced in 1995. The exoplanet's di, is orbited by the first true extrasolar planetInfrared Image of a possible extrasolar planet (lower left) in the Constellation Taurus, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Subsequently proven to be a background star, but heavily used by the media nonetheless. An extrasolar planet (or exoplanet is a ps ( planetA planet (from the Greek , planetes or "wanderers") is a body of considerable mass that orbits a star and that produces very little or no energy through nuclear fusion. Prior to the 1990s only nine were known (all of them in our own solar system); as of 3s orbiting a star other than the Sun) to have been discovered.