Pegasi: A Boring Star
There’s nothing remarkable and significant about the star 51 Pegasi. Maybe that’s what something that made the discovery of an exoplanet so special and brought a radical revolution in astronomy. Pegasi is a general-looking star residing 50 light-years away with 10% more mass than our sun and is around 6 billion years old. It’s just a regular star, living an ordinary life with a single planet orbiting around it. It was the discovery of the mayor and Queloz that brought 51 Pegasi into the limelight.
The Swiss scientists ushered a new path of exploration that resulted in the development of hundreds and thousands of other exoplanets. It’s only a matter of a few technological advancements and research, and we are just one long-term program away from discovering Earth’s twin galaxy.