WASHINGTON (WJLA) — A high school student interning at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt this past summer discovered a bit more than how the employees there take their coffee. He discovered a planet.
Wolf Cukier's job, after he finished his junior year at Scarsdale High School in New York, was to examine variations in star brightness captured by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
TESS has four cameras, which each take a full-frame image of a patch of the sky every 30 minutes for 27 days, NASA says. Scientists use the observations to generate graphs of how the brightness of stars change over time.
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11 comments:
DUGH !!!! one would think that with all the taxpayer $$$ NASA
gets they would have found the same along time ago ????
& they think they are so smart !!! NOT
It's a big, big universe.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
DUGH !!!! one would think that with all the taxpayer $$$ NASA
gets they would have found the same along time ago ????
& they think they are so smart !!! NOT
January 10, 2020 at 9:57 PM
fresh eyes
Apparently, high school kids are good at installing their grandparents smart TV's AND finding planets.
Maybe he will find the lost negatives of the pictures taken during Apollo 11
1,000 Light Years = 5.8786254 x 10 to the 15th power miles (58,786,254,000,000,000,000,000 miles.)
Everything looks really, really, really tiny at that distance.
9:07-A war almost started over those negatives.A war that we could not possibly have won.
1019
Did the negatives ever exist?
Who in the world would "lose" them if they did exist?
How can that even be comprehended intellectually?
I believe nothing the US government says or the media
Maybe Nasa's Budget should be cut !!! Inbarrassment !!!
Put the Kids in charge of NASA !!!! LOL
Anonymous Anonymous said...
1019
Did the negatives ever exist?
Who in the world would "lose" them if they did exist?
How can that even be
I believe nothing the US government says or the media
January 11, 2020 at 11:57 AM
comprehended intellectually? As opposed to...what? How else does anyone comprehend anything? lol
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