"Alan P. Boss" is a United States Astrophysics/astrophysicist and planetary scientist.

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A minority that's still upset.

We couldn't come up with a definition of planets in splendid isolation.

Normally when you think of flea markets, you think of sweat socks and T-shirts. We're looking at young designers, art, photography, nothing mass-produced. We want to be cutting edge and unique.

It's much closer to our solar system than anything we've found so far.

This really is an exciting discovery. I'm still somewhat stunned they have such good data.

It really is a major milestone.

There are a whole bunch of things people want to use the 'p-word' for, so we have to be careful.

Now we have our first genuine detection of light from a planet around a solar-like star.

It may very well be that solar systems like our own are probably not rare in the galaxy. They may actually be a very common case.