part.29. Exoplanets – Worlds Beyond Our Solar System.

For centuries, humans believed that globes might live around other stars, but it was not until the late 20th century that this belief was verified. The idea that our Sun might not be unique in hosting globes was long suspected but demanded experimental evidence. That each changed in 1992, when astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail blazoned the discovery of globes ringing a pulsar, PSR B1257 12. Though strange — these were globes around a dead, fleetly spinning neutron star — the discovery opened the cosmic levees.