The Weird Mystery Of The "Einstein Desert" In The Hunt For Rogue Planets
The Weird Mystery Of The "Einstein Desert" In The Hunt For Rogue PlanetsThe first confirmed discovery of an exoplanet was announced in 1992, when astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail reported two or more planet-sized bodies orbiting pulsar PSR1257 + 12 using the Aricebo telescope. The first confirmed discovery of a planet orbiting a main-sequence, Sun-like star came a few years later...