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Pegasus is a constellation in the northern sky, named after the winged horse Pegasus in Greek mythology. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy , and is one of the 88 constellations recognised today.
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Pegasus, sorted by decreasing ... • Notes = Common name(s) or alternate name(s); comments; notable properties ...
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
Beta Pegasi (β Pegasi, abbreviated Beta Peg, β Peg), formally named Scheat / ˈ ʃ iː æ t /, [12] [13] is a red giant star and the second-brightest star (after Epsilon Pegasi) in the constellation of Pegasus. It forms the upper right corner of the Great Square of Pegasus, [14] a prominent rectangular asterism.
α Pegasi (Latinised to Alpha Pegasi) is the star's Bayer designation.It bore the traditional name Markab (or Marchab), which derived from an Arabic word مركب markab "the saddle of the horse", or is mistranscription of Mankib, which itself comes from an Arabic phrase منكب الفرس Mankib al-Faras "(the Star of) the Shoulder (of the Constellation) of the Horse" for Beta Pegasi.
Pegasus, as the horse of Muses, on the roof of Poznań Opera House (Max Littmann, 1910) Pegasus on ancient cup of Marlik. The poet Hesiod presents a folk etymology of the name Pegasus as derived from πηγή pēgē 'spring, well', referring to "the pegai of Okeanos, where he was born". [1]
51 Pegasi (abbreviated 51 Peg), formally named Helvetios / h ɛ l ˈ v iː ʃ i ə s /, [12] is a Sun-like star located 50.6 light-years (15.5 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus. It was the first main-sequence star found to have an exoplanet (designated 51 Pegasi b, officially named Dimidium) orbiting it. [13]
Epsilon Pegasi (Latinised from ε Pegasi, abbreviated Epsilon Peg, ε Peg), formally named Enif / ˈ iː n ɪ f /, is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Pegasus. With an average apparent visual magnitude of 2.4, [3] this is a second-magnitude star that is readily visible to the naked eye.