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Nobel Winners Changed Our Understanding with Exoplanet Discovery
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The Swiss team of Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz made a stunning announcement in October 1995: the first detection of…
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The Planet Hunter and the ‘Unseen Giant’
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It was March 1988, and astronomer David Latham was working into the night, puzzling over an odd result from an…
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