The epic hunt for a planet just like Earth!

In 1995, two Swiss astronomers looked up at the stars—and changed history forever. 🌌

When Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first planet ever found orbiting a star outside our solar system, the world’s understanding of the universe exploded. It wasn’t just another planet—it was a gas giant hotter than lava, orbiting its star in just four days. A world that wasn’t supposed to exist.

What started as a skeptical “Planet in Pegasus?” on the front page of Nature turned into one of science’s greatest revolutions—unveiling over 6,000 exoplanets, each stranger and more fascinating than the last. From “Hot Jupiters” to lava worlds, and planets that orbit two suns, the search for an Earth twin has only just begun.

In this video, we dive into the moment that changed astronomy forever—the discovery that proved we’re not the center of the universe… we’re just one neighborhood in a galaxy full of worlds.

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