This year marks the 20th anniversary of 51 Peg b, the first exoplanet detected around a Sun-like star. And although the number of sheer detections in the years since have been remarkable, it’s also remarkable how little we still know about these alien worlds, save for their distances from their host stars, their radii, and … Continue reading "Prying Planets Out of The Shadows: The Gemini Planet Imager’s First Year of Light"