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Limits RegistrySwiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced the discovery of 51 Pegasi b in October 1995, a gas-giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star 50 light-years away — the first exoplanet found around a Sun-like star, opening the field of exoplanet science that has since found over 5,000 confirmed planets. Mayor and Queloz shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery.
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Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced the discovery of 51 Pegasi b in October 1995, a gas-giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star 50 light-years away — the first exoplanet found around a Sun-like star, opening the field of exoplanet science that has since found over 5,000 confirmed planets. Mayor and Queloz shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery.
The year of the first confirmed detection of a planet orbiting a Sun-like (main-sequence) star outside our solar system.
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Limits Registry. LR-FIRST-EXOPLANET-DISCOVERED. First exoplanet discovered orbiting a Sun-like star. 2026.