Tag Archive | Exoplanets
Searching for that elusive exo-Earth
Originally posted on Matthew Wright:
In the nearly 20 years since Michel Mayer and Didier Queloz confirmed the first known exoplanet around 51 Pegasi, the number of known exoplanets has risen to over 1860 – and there are more to come. The Kepler space telescope, before being hobbled by mechanical failure, created a massive database of planet candidates orbiting…
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