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ESA paves the way for an avalanche of new extrasolar planet discoveries

18 June 2002

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A planetary system that looks similar to our own

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This illustration shows a newly discovered Jupiter-like planet and its hypothetical moon (the blue orb) circling the star 55 Cancri. A previously known large planet is just to the left of the star and a hypothetical Earth-like planet to the right of the star.

Credits: ESA/Lynette Cook

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European planet-hunters Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor

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About ESA's planet-search missions

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In order from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.

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ESA to test the smartest technique for detecting extrasolar planets from the ground