Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announce the ground breaking discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary main-sequence star.
This landmark astronomical finding revolutionized our understanding of planetary systems beyond our solar system
The following day on October 6, 1995, the journal Nature published a shocking discovery: the location of the first exoplanet known to humanity.
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It was named 51 Pegasi b and the discoverers had used the radial velocity method using the ELODIE spectrograph at the Haute-Provence Observatory in France.
Other astronomers were quick to join in confirming this exciting discovery, such as Paul Butler of the University of California and Geoffrey Marcy of San Francisco State University.
Thus began a new era in space exploration. It was so important that for the next 20 years, it was considered