What did Mayor's discover contribute to understanding?
Earth's place in the cosmos
Formation of stars
Black holes
Quarks
Answer
Mayor's discovery contributed to understanding Earth's place in the cosmos. In the early 1990s, Mayor and Michel Mayor used a new type of spectrometer to search for extrasolar planets around nearby stars. They discovered a planet orbiting the star 51 Pegasi, the first planet ever detected orbiting a Sun-like star. This discovery led to a new field of astronomy called exoplanetology, which studies planets around stars other than the Sun.
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