70 Virginis
A Sun-like star around which has been found a high-mass planet in a very eccentric orbit. The companion of 70 Virginis is the prototype for the eccentric jovian class of extrasolar planets.
70 Virginis
(The Planet Project)
THE PLANET
The circle shows the location of the class G star 70 Virginis (in the constellation Virgo). The massive planet, at least 6.6 times more massive than Jupiter, orbits the star every 117 days, or 0.
70 Virginis
NASA
70 Virginis is a yellow-orange star
like our Sun, Sol. (See a Digitized
Sky Survey image of 70 Virginis
from the Nearby Stars Database.) ...
70 Virginis
dec =
appmag_v = +4.98
70 Virginis is a yellow dwarf star approximately 59 light-years away in the constellation Virgo.
It is likely that more planetary systems will be discovered using the methods that found 51 Pegasi, 70 Virginis and 47 Ursae Majoris. Exciting times are ahead!
The 51 Pegasi planetary system is quite different from our solar system.
Butler from the University of California San Francisco State and the University of California Berkeley announced discovery of two planets orbiting nearby solar-type stars, 47 Ursae Majoris and 70 Virginis.
Although the extrasolar planet 70 Virginis b was initially nicknamed "Goldilocks" because it was thought to be within the star's habitable zone, it is now believed to be far too warm to be "just right" for life, ...
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70 Virginis
Note - The total list of Flamsteed designations contained 2554 stars, these are just a few of the most popular.
On 17 January, 1996, Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler announced they had found two new Jupiter-sized planets circling visible stars: 70 Virginis and 47 Ursae Majoris.
 See also: Solar, Planet, Star, Light, Constellation
  
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