The Kepler space telescope's search may be at an end, but Didier Queloz, who found the first world around a sunlike star, says more planet hunts are afoot
In 1995, you discovered the first exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star. Did you foresee just how far the field would have come since then?
At first looking for exoplanets was seen as weird. A lot of people were negative about it. Then the field began to grow, and the establishment of the Kepler mission in 2009 showed the field was fully mature. In parallel, exoplanet meetings also grew. Many other disciplines are also interested now; it is much wider than just astronomy.