{"id":7699,"date":"2026-10-06T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7699"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:50:36","slug":"51-pegasi-was-discovered-in-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7699","title":{"rendered":"51 Pegasi Was Discovered in 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13557\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13557\" class=\"wp-image-13557\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/51-Pegasi-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"51 Pegasi\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">51 Pegasi<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>51 Pegasi was discovered in 1995.<\/strong> It is the first sun-like star to have an exoplanet orbiting it. Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz first announced the discovery, and other scientists have confirmed the presence of the planet, now called Bellerophon. Children can enjoy the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>GREAT<\/strong><\/span> infographic of the star at: <a href=\"https:\/\/exoplanets.nasa.gov\/resources\/289\/infographic-profile-of-planet-51-pegasi-b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">51 Pegasi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>51 Pegasi was discovered in 1995. It is the first sun-like star to have an exoplanet orbiting it. Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz first announced the discovery, and other scientists have confirmed the presence of the planet, now called Bellerophon. Children can enjoy the GREAT infographic of the star at: 51 Pegasi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5273,2926,2931,2930,2928,2927,2929,5924],"class_list":["post-7699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5273","tag-51-pegasi","tag-bellerophon","tag-didier-queloz","tag-exoplanet","tag-first-sun-like-star","tag-michel-mayor","tag-october-6","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7699"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29770,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions\/29770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}