HD 82943 C
HD 82943 c is an extrasolar planet approximately 89 light-years away in the constellation of Hydra (constellation), Hydra. The planet was announced in 2001 to be orbiting the Yellow dwarf star, yellow dwarf star HD 82943. The planet is the innermost planet of two. See also * HD 82943 b References External links * * Hydra (constellation) Exoplanets discovered in 2001 Giant planets Exoplanets detected by radial velocity {{extrasolar-planet-stub ...
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Michel Mayor
Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor (; born 12 January 1942) is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the Observatory of Geneva. He is co-laureate of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Jim Peebles and Didier Queloz, and the winner of the 2010 Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize and the 2015 Kyoto Prize. Together with Didier Queloz in 1995, he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star, 51 Pegasi. For this achievement, they were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star" resulting in “contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos.” Related to the discovery, Mayor noted that humans will never migrate to such exoplanets since they are "much, much too far away ... nd would takehundreds of mil ...
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