An international team of astronomers announced the first exoplanet discovered through a combined approach of direct imaging and precision measurements of a star's motion on the sky.
To discover exoplanets, planets which orbit stars other than the Sun, by imaging astronomers have up until now used "blind surveys": stars are selected for imaging consider factors such as age and distance but are otherwise unbiased. However, blind surveys find planets very infrequently.
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