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“Imported from content/04-cosmos.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”

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+---
+title: Planets around other stars
+kind: problem
+status: solved
+tier: V3
+year: 1584
+statement: Do other stars have planets?
+space: life-beyond-earth
+---
 
+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.
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+*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.*
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+Closed 1992, Wolszczan and Frail (pulsar planets); 1995, Mayor and Queloz (51 Pegasi b).
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+## Sources
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+- [Wikipedia: Exoplanet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet)
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+[[Space:life-beyond-earth|Life beyond Earth]] · [[Continent:cosmos|Cosmos]]

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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).

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Life beyond Earth · Cosmos