Tag: radial velocity method
First Tatooine planet detected by a telescope on Earth
The 193 cm telescope of the Observatoire de Haute-Provence which was used for this research. This telescope discovered the first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, and which led to the Nobel…
172 new exoplanets, including 18 systems, in the net of astronomers!
There are currently nearly 5,000 confirmed exoplanets. And astronomers keep finding new candidates. Still in the archives of the Kepler Space Telescope today. They report the discovery of no less…