Media1995

First planet found around a Sun-like star announced

When: 6 Oct 1995
Where: Florence, Italy
Sources: 3 public sources

Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor, who announced 51 Pegasi b in 1995, pictured in 2012 L. Weinstein/Ciel et Espace Photos, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

At a conference in Florence, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva announced 51 Pegasi b, a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting a Sun-like star. Their Nature paper followed in November 1995, and the find earned a share of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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OfficialPress release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 (opens in a new tab)Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (NobelPrize.org) / 2019-10-08
FirsthandA Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star (Mayor and Queloz) (opens in a new tab)Nature / 1995-11
PressHalf of Nobel Prize in Physics honors exoplanet trailblazers (opens in a new tab)Physics Today (AIP) / 2019-10

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