TXT is its acronym of astrophysicist for Trinh Xuan Thuan.
It could have been the name of a planet in
The Little Prince
.
Planet TXT, where we would only meet silent writers who talk to each other by text.
The planets have curious names.
Let us think of 51 Pegasi b, an extrasolar planet confirmed in orbit around the star 51 during an observation of the sky made in 1995 by two Swiss astronomers, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, from an observatory in Haute-Provence.
They were rewarded for this discovery with a Nobel Prize, received twenty-four years later, in 2019.
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This discovery was very important for TXT, our galactic guide.
He tells us by phone: “
Before 1995, we only knew one Solar System capable of harboring life: it was ours.
We suddenly had the revelation that the universe had been shown to be more creative than we thought.
Since then, 4000 exoplanets have been identified.
There is therefore a profusion of planets capable of producing living things, in theory.
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