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  2. Pegasus (constellation) - Wikipedia

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    Within the constellation's borders there are 177 stars of apparent magnitude 6.5 or greater. [b] [10] Epsilon Pegasi, also known as Enif, marks the horse's muzzle. The brightest star in Pegasus, is an orange supergiant of spectral type K21b that is around 12 times as massive as the Sun and is around 690 light-years distant from Earth. [16]

  3. List of stars in Pegasus - Wikipedia

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    Main menu. Main menu. ... This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Pegasus, ... List of stars in Pegasus. 20 languages ...

  4. HR 8799 - Wikipedia

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    HR 8799 is a roughly 30 million-year-old main-sequence star located 133.3 light-years (40.9 parsecs) away from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus. It has roughly 1.5 times the Sun's mass and 4.9 times its luminosity. It is part of a system that also contains a debris disk and at least four massive planets.

  5. 51 Pegasi - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Eta Pegasi - Wikipedia

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    Eta Pegasi or η Pegasi, formally named Matar / ˈ m eɪ t ɑːr /, [11] [12] is a binary star in the constellation of Pegasus. The apparent visual magnitude of this star is +2.95, [2] making it the fifth-brightest member of Pegasus. Based upon parallax measurements, the distance to this star is about 214 light-years (66 parsecs) from the Sun. [1]

  7. Alpha Pegasi - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Beta Pegasi - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Iota Pegasi - Wikipedia

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    ι Pegasi, Latinized as Iota Pegasi is a double-lined spectroscopic binary [8] star system located within the northern constellation of Pegasus, along a line between Lambda and Kappa Pegasi. It is visible to the naked eye as a yellow-hued point of light with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 3.77. [2]