Friday, 31 July 2015

Exoplanets 20/20: Looking back to the future

Artist's rendering of a Jupiter-sized exoplanet and its host

Two decades into the study of planets that orbit other stars, scientists recall that the discovery of the first such planet seemed almost unbelievable at the time.





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