20 Years On, Future Bright for Exoplanet Science

Thursday, October 15, 2015 - 07:30 in Astronomy & Space

On Oct. 6, 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of Switzerland's Geneva Observatory announced the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first alien planet ever found around a sunlike star.

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