amy sacco joining us from deja vu science so tell us a little bit more about these winners and their work this year then the bell prize in physics basically new understanding of the evolution of our course most and the 1st discovery of an exoplanet which is an earth like planet with the potential to hold life so everybody heard of the big bang model how our universe developed 40000000000 years ago. then state into what it is today so james peoples one of the winner he based his research on this model and will discover or into a present for example of the universe radiation and helped discover new physical process that went on in the universe and the other 2 winners they discovered the 1st x. a planet in 1905 so of course they explained it was really far away so they couldn't observe it directly so they had to develop custom made instruments and then discovered a planet which is called. 51 people ok so i mean but overall though what does this tell us about the universe and does it have any practical applications well people's work basically showed us that what we know of the universe

we're joined now by amy sacco from d.w. science to put this into context for us to tell us a little bit more about these winners and their work sure so this year the committee acknowledged basically physical. aisle physical understanding of cosmology which means the research that was awarded it helps us to understand the cosmos the wool to basically badger and how. how it developed. surprise goes to the american people so the health of the press goes to 2 swiss people who researched that and who actually found an exoplanet and exoplanets earth like planets like the earth that orbits stars and the exciting thing about exoplanets is that they have the potential to hold life so exoplanets have been a trend in the last couple of years and so that was also acknowledged by the committee but bottom line i mean what does this tell us about our understanding of the universe well it helps us to understand how everything formed and away it could lead to in the future and. how something about our own life obviously. the nobel prize for