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Nobel Winners Changed Our Understanding with Exoplanet Discovery

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The Swiss team of Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz made a stunning announcement in October 1995: the first detection of…

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David Latham, a senior astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, with the HARPS-N spectrograph, which measures the masses of exoplanets.

The Planet Hunter and the ‘Unseen Giant’

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It was March 1988, and astronomer David Latham was working into the night, puzzling over an odd result from an…

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