Planets around other stars
More than 5,000 are now confirmed. The first around a Sun-like star was a hot Jupiter that orbits in four days, a kind of planet no theory had predicted. The 2019 Nobel Prize went to Mayor and Queloz.
Evidence tier V3 is the import default for a result the curation records as settled in the published record. No formal proof or certificate is attached to this page yet.
Closed 1992, Wolszczan and Frail (pulsar planets); 1995, Mayor and Queloz (51 Pegasi b).
Sources
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