Abstract
Abstract
To date (June 2017), more than 3610 planets orbiting other stars than our Sun are known. We shall briefly review the main detection methods, together with some of the big surprises which arose since the discovery of the first exoplanet around a solar type star in 1995. It is now also possible to characterize the atmospheres of few extrasolar planets and exocomets become detectable.
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy