1994: News breaks that astronomer Alex Wolszczan has confirmed that planets are orbiting pulsar PSR B1257+12. His research appears in Science the next day. The confirmation kicked off an explosion in extrasolar planet hunting. Astronomers have now found more than 500 planets around other suns, and are adding more all the time. The groundbreaking discovery […]
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