Talk:Discoveries of exoplanets

First evidence of an exoplanet
It seems that the first evidence that exoplanets existed was obtained in 1917. The contamination of the spectra of van Maanen's Star, a white dwarf, signaled the presence of an exoplanet in the near past. This was realized in 2016 according to NASA:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/overlooked-treasure-the-first-evidence-of-exoplanets — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.146.134.8 (talk) 12:42, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Bar graph outdated
Hi there, I just want to let people know that the graph with the bars on the current status of planet finding by method is out of date. The last update was October 2010 and as far as I know, there are a lot of new planets discovered after that date. How about the Kepler finding of roughly 1200 planets for example? At least some of those should already be confirmed.

What do you people think? :) 83.136.195.130 (talk) 08:19, 24 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Updated.  — Aldaron • T/C 18:01, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Please include citations with edit updates.
In order to avoid edit reverts, please include appropriate references (WP:RS) with newly added updated edits - in any case - enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 12:54, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

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"stop exploring whats not in your solar system or its Alien invasion"
How is this a section of this article? There goes all reputability. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.218.24.11 (talk) 17:22, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

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