51 Pegasi b Trivia Questions

Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the 2019 Nobel Prize for this discovery—actually true! So this statement is false because it is true? Wait, correction: The statement says 'earned'—it did. But the question asks for false myths. This is true; I need to make a false one. Let me replace.

Its orbital period is about 4.23 days, incredibly short due to its close proximity to the star.

The star is in Pegasus, but the planet is named after the star, not the constellation directly. Still, this is essentially true. Let me fix: Actually, it is true. I'll swap.

It was found via the radial velocity method, which detects stellar wobble. The transit method came later for other planets.

Discovered in 1995, it was the first confirmed exoplanet around a main-sequence star, revolutionizing astronomy.

Its minimum mass is roughly 0.46 Jupiter masses, making it a relatively lightweight hot Jupiter.

51 Pegasi is a magnitude 5.5 star, faintly visible without a telescope in ideal conditions.

No; it's a gas giant, primarily hydrogen and helium. Diamond planets are hypothetical and much rarer.