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Didier Queloz: ‘space science is a revolutionary force for good’
“It was very emotional – scary but exciting. We knew we’d found something unusual,” recalled Didier Queloz on spotting 51 Pegasi b, later confirmed as the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. Back in 1995 and then a PhD student, he knew he had hit …