On 19 October 2009, at an international exoplanet conference, the team who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, the spectrograph for ESO’s 3.6-metre telescope, reports on the incredible discovery of more than 30 new exoplanets, cementing HARPS’s position as the world’s foremost exoplanet hunter.
La 19 octombrie 2009, la conferinţa internaţională privind exoplanetele, echipa care a construit spectrograful HAPRS, ataşat la telescopul ESO de 3,6 m a raportat incredibila descoperire a mai mult de 30 de noi exoplanete, făcând astfel din HARPS cel mai renumit instrument de descoperire a unor astfel de planete extrasolare.