Planets confirmed orbiting a star other than the Sun, including hot Jupiters, gas giants in close, scorching orbits, and super-Earth candidates and confirmations, rocky planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. Belongs here: any confirmed or strong-candidate planet beyond the Solar System. Does not belong here: any of the eight Solar System planets, grouped under Planets and the Sun.
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1. Wikipedia: Exoplanet
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The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet was in 1992 around a pulsar, and the first detection around a main-sequence star was in 1995.
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