A high school student working as a NASA intern discovered a new planet – on just his third day on the job.
17-year-old Wolf Cukier was pouring over data from NASA’s TESS mission when he noticed something – an object thought to be a stellar eclipse was actually a planet.
The planet, called ‘TOI 1338 b’, is somewhere between the size of Neptune and Saturn and has two suns. It’s located about 1,300 light-years from Earth in the Pictor constellation.
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-planet-toi-1338-b-discovered-by-nasa-intern-wolf-cukier-tess-satelitte/
