‘There’s something here’: teen discovers new planet while interning at Nasa
Wolf Cukier, 17, discovered a planet 6.9 times larger than Earth and only the 13th of its kind
A teenage intern on his third day helping out at a Nasa program to find worlds beyond our solar system has discovered a previously unknown planet with two stars 1,300 light years from Earth away in the constellation Pictor, the agency has announced.
Wolf Cukier, 17, from Scarsdale, New York, made the discovery while peering through the agency’s orbiting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (Tess) last year.