Stéphane Udry
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Stéphane Udry (born 1961 in Sion, Switzerland) is an astronomer at the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, whose current work is primarily the search for extra-solar planets. He and his team, in 2007, discovered a possibly terrestrial planet in the habitable zone of the Gliese 581 planetary system, approximately 20 light years away in the constellation Libra.[1][2][3] He also led the observational team that discovered HD 85512 b, another most promisingly habitable exoplanet.[4]