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At just 17 years old, Wolf Cukier discovered a planet on his third day as a NASA intern. 🪐🛰️ In 2019, he was analyzing data from NASA’s TESS space telescope when he noticed an unusual signal that turned out to be a planet. Named TOI 1338 b, the planet has a radius approximately 6.9 times that of Earth and orbits two stars about 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Pictor. Its two stars orbit each other every 15 days, while the planet takes approximately 95 days to complete an orbit. Cukier’s discovery marked the first circumbinary planet discovered by NASA’s TESS mission. Scientists subsequently analyzed and confirmed the finding, which was announced in January 2020. (via: NASA) #Pubity #Astronomy