Finding exoplanets at the racetrack
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The Exoplanet Discovery Era
In 1995, Didier Quelos and Michael Mayer discovered the first main sequence type exoplanet. The planet itself was a hot Jupiter about 70% the size of Jupiter. And they discovered this planet with the radial velocity method. So after 1995, what commenced were a couple decades of an intense era of exoplanet discovery. As of today, when we're recording, it's March 6th, 2023, as of today, astronomers on Earth have confirmed the existence of 5272 exoplanets.
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