The Almanac

October 6

One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.

  1. 1995

    The first planet around another sun is found

    Two Swiss astronomers, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, announced they had detected a planet orbiting a normal star like our Sun, 51 Pegasi, about 50 light-years away. It was the first of its kind ever found. Thousands of these exoplanets are known now, and the discovery won a Nobel Prize.

    Source: Wikipedia

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