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Professor discovers smallest planet

Written by Maxwell Weidmann, Staff Writer
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Late last July, a University astrophysicist helped discover the smallest planet ever detected outside the solar system — without even seeing it.

Using a planet-finding technique called "gravitational microlensing", a process theorized by Professor Bohdan Paczynski, astronomers were able to detect ...

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