30 years after its discovery, astronomers realize first confirmed exoplanet is truly rare - Inverse


7/13/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 9 months ago
by Charles Q. Choi

Worlds circling pulsars are a cosmic rarity, according to a new study.

In 1992, astronomers discovered the first exoplanets in an unexpected part of the universe: around a pulsar, a rapidly spinning stellar corpse. Not many other pulsar planets have been found since th… [+5277 chars]

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