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Radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced the discovery of two pulsar planets orbiting PSR B1257+12 (depicted), the first confirmed detection of exoplanets.
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Aleksander Wolszczan
20th and 21st-century Polish astronomer
Aleksander Wolszczan is a Polish astronomer. He is the co-discoverer of the first confirmed extrasolar planets and pulsar planets. He is a graduate of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and works as a professor at the Pennsylvania State University.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Dale Frail
Canadian astronomer
Dale A. Frail is a Canadian astronomer working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Pulsar planet
Planets found orbiting pulsars
Pulsar planets are planets that are orbiting pulsars. The first such planets to be discovered were around a millisecond pulsar in 1992 and were the first extrasolar planets to be confirmed as discovered. Pulsars are extremely precise clocks and even small planets can create…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
PSR B1257+12
Millisecond pulsar in the constellation Virgo
PSR B1257+12, alternatively designated PSR J1300+1240, is a millisecond pulsar, 2,300 light-years from the Sun, in the constellation Virgo, rotating at about 161 times per second. It is also named Lich, after a powerful, fictional undead creature.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Exoplanet
Planet outside of the Solar System
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside of the Solar System. The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet was in 1992 around a pulsar, and the first detection around a main-sequence star was in 1995. A different planet, first detected in 1988, was confirmed in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)