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Popular information: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 — NobelPrize.org

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  1. The radial velocity method measures how a star moves under the pull of its orbiting planet: light from a star moving towards us is bluer, and redder when it moves away. The transit method measures the dip in a star's brightness when a planet passes in front of it. 51 Pegasi b orbits only about eight million kilometres from its star, taking four days per orbit.
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