Tag Archives: Didier Queloz
Science and the scientist
Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor won the 2019 Nobel Prize for physics for discovering a famous exoplanet (51 Pegasi b) in 1995. Their claim was first verified by a top astronomer at the time named Geoff Marcy. He was later … Continue reading
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Tagged 51 Pegasi b, Azeen Ghorayshi, Didier Queloz, Geoff Marcy, John B Goodenough, lithium-ion batteries, Michel Mayor, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Nobel Prize for physics, sexual harassment
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A revolutionary exoplanet
In 1992, Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail became the first astronomers to publicly announce that they had discovered the first planets outside the Solar System, orbiting the dense core of a dead star about 2,300 lightyears away. This event is considered to … Continue reading
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Tagged 51 Pegasi b, brown dwarf, CRIRES, Didier Queloz, Doppler spectroscopy, ELODIE spectrograph, exoplanets, Grand Tack Model, hot Jupiters, Ignas Snellen, James Peebles, main sequence stars, Michel Mayor, NASA Kepler telescope, Nice Model, Nobel Prize for physics, orbital velocity, pegasean planets, Physics Nobel Prize, planetary migration, Proxima Centauri, radial velocity, roaster planets, Very Large Telescope, Wolf 1061
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