The year was 1992, when modern space researchers achieved a revolutionary breakthrough: For the first time in history, the existence of three planets orbiting outside the solar system was confirmed. As is well known, the groundbreaking discovery of the celestial bodies in the realms of the pulsar Lich was to be merely the prelude to a large-scale search for planets. In the meantime, researchers have succeeded in detecting more than 5,100 exoplanets in 3,790 systems. In the form of GJ 896Ab, another blank spot was recently erased from the star charts. How astronomers managed to locate this strange world in the Milky Way, and what makes this discovery so extraordinary, we’ll show you in today’s video!
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