High School Student Discovers New Planet Just 3 Days Into His NASA Internship.
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.
