The discovery of the first exoplanet | The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics

The very first exoplanet - a planet outside of our Solar System orbiting another star - was discovered in 1995 by Queloz and Mayor. They were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics for this discovery. But why did they have to wait 24 years to win it? Often, it’s not just the discovery itself that’s worthy of the prize, but the legacy that discovery leaves. In this case, producing a whole new field of research in astrophysics and making 18,852 other research papers possible. #NobelPrize2019

Help discover more exoplanets by classifying transits in new data from the TESS telescope: https://planethunters.org

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Jenkins et al. (2015) - https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi...

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