Sentences with phrase «pulsar planet discovery»

Since his pulsar planet discovery in 1992, lots of other scientists have joined the search for worlds around other stars, but almost nobody else does it the way he does.

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The list of accomplishments is far too large to fit within one article, but they include: the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence; creation of the Drake equation; discovery of flat galactic rotation curves; first pulsar discovered in a supernova remnant; first organic polyatomic molecule detected in interstellar space; black hole detected at the center of the Milky Way; determination of the Tully - Fisher relationship; detection of the first interstellar anion; measurement of the most massive neutron star known; first high angular resolution image of the Sunyaev - Zel» Dovich Effect; discovery of only known millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system; discovery of pebble - sized proto - planets in Orion, and the first detection of a chiral molecule in space.

Fellow astronomers were quite surprised in 1990 when Alex Wolszczan and «Dale Frail announced the discovery of the first three planets outside the Solar System around PSR B1257 +12 during a pulsars survey (Wolszczan and Frail, 1992.