Sun-like star (G5V)
51 Peg
In 1995 a planet around this Sun-like star became the first ever found around a normal star, winning a Nobel Prize.
- Distance
- 50 light years
- Surface
- 5,488 °C
- Size
- 1.2 × the Sun
- Known planets
- 1
Outer layers
- H 73%
- He 25%
- O, C, Fe and heavier 2%
Glowing hydrogen plasma
Modelled from typical stellar abundances