The Astronomer Who Found New Worlds, Michel Mayor

This documentary recounts the extraordinary life and work of Michel Mayor, the Swiss astronomer whose groundbreaking discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star transformed modern astronomy. It follows his early scientific curiosity, the painstaking technical battles behind precision radial-velocity measurements, the dramatic announcement of the exoplanet fifty-one Pegasi b, and the global revolution in planetary science that followed. This story reveals how one scientist expanded humanity’s understanding of the cosmos and ignited the search for life beyond Earth.