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Friday, January 10, 2020

High school intern discovers new planet at Maryland's NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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:

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

Anonymous said...

It's a big, big universe.

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

Apparently, high school kids are good at installing their grandparents smart TV's AND finding planets.

Anonymous said...

Maybe he will find the lost negatives of the pictures taken during Apollo 11

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

9:07-A war almost started over those negatives.A war that we could not possibly have won.

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

Maybe Nasa's Budget should be cut !!! Inbarrassment !!!

Anonymous said...

Put the Kids in charge of NASA !!!! LOL

Anonymous said...

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