Nobel Winners Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz Talk About 51 Peg b Discovery
Channel: NASASolarSystem
Date: 2019-10-08

51 Pegasi b, also called "Dimidium," was the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a Sun-like star in 1995. In 2019, its discoverers, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics. Here the astronomers talk about the discovery of 51 Peg b and what it meant.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech