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51 Pegasi b
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51 Pegasi b, officially named Dimidium, is an extrasolar planet about 50 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. It was the first planet discovered orbiting a main-sequence, Sun-like star and became the prototype for the class of planets known as hot Jupiters.
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