BD+14 4559

BD+14 4559, named Solaris, is a 10th magnitude K-type main sequence star located approximately 161 light years away in the constellation of Pegasus. On June 10, 2009, an exoplanet (Pirx) was found in orbit by Niedzielski et al. using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. The star BD+14 4559 was named during the NameExoWorlds campaign by Poland. Solaris is the title of a 1961 science fiction novel about an ocean-covered exoplanet by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem.

BD+14 4559

BD+14 4559, named Solaris, is a 10th magnitude K-type main sequence star located approximately 161 light years away in the constellation of Pegasus. On June 10, 2009, an exoplanet (Pirx) was found in orbit by Niedzielski et al. using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. The star BD+14 4559 was named during the NameExoWorlds campaign by Poland. Solaris is the title of a 1961 science fiction novel about an ocean-covered exoplanet by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem.