17-Year-Old Student Discovers A New Planet On The Third Day Of Internship At NASA

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17-Year-Old Student Discovers A New Planet On The Third Day Of Internship At NASA

Wolf Cukier, a junior at Scarsdale High School in New York, got a two-month internship with NASA during his junior year. So he went to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.His first task was to investigate fluctuations in star brightness acquired by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, as part of the Planet Hunters TESS citizen science initiative. (The citizen science initiative lets people who do not work …