17-year-old Discovers a New Planet on His Third Day of NASA Internship

Wolf Cukier is a high school student, who discovered a new planet on his third day of internship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.

Back in summer 2019, at age 17 when he joined, his primary job was to examine variations in star brightness captured by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, also known as TESS. But while doing that he discovered a brand new planet lying in a system 1,300 light-years away from us.

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“I was looking through the data for everything the volunteers had flagged as an eclipsing binary, a system where two stars circle around each other and, from our view, eclipse each other every orbit,” said Wolf Cukier. “About three days into my internship, I saw a signal from a system called TOI 1338b. At first, I thought it was a stellar

The new planet, now known as TOI 1388b, is TESS’s first circumbinary planet, which means that it orbits two stars instead of one. One of them is 10% more massive than our Sun, and the other one is cooler, dimmer and only one-third of the Sun’s mass.

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The planet itself is approximately 6.9 times larger than Earth, between the sizes of Neptune and Saturn. Some generated images of TOI 1388b planet were released. and took the internet by the storm. In these images, the colors of this planet to be mesmerizing pastel, featuring bubblegum pink, soft purple, lavender, and light green shades.

These images were created by a bot and aren’t actual images of the planet. We still don’t have telescopes that are capable to resolve all the planets in our solar system, let alone any exoplanets from another star system.

Nonetheless, check out these generated images. Spoiler alert, it’s amazing!!!

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And of course, the internet had a lot to say about this amazing planet:

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30 People Who Experienced The Heatwaves This Summer Share How Unbearable Things Are Getting

As August is coming to an end, so is the summer season. By the end of next month, we can (finally) kiss this scorching heat goodbye and say hello to fall. Temperatures are now going to go down as we approach Halloween and Christmas.

Now that we’re about to push summer away, we have compiled 30 images that perfectly captured how sweltering this summer has been like. These images contain a lot of summer struggles, like objects melting or animals dropping. In this post, we’ll look at them and hope to never see them again in real life!

#1 More That 59°C Was Measured On The Soil Surface In Spain And 48°C In The South On France

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#2 You Cannot Make This Up

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#3 “It Is So Hot In NYC Right Now That When I Was Waiting For The Subway Today, The Tracks Literally Caught On Fire”

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#4 It Is So Hot In Italy That Thermometer Sensors Stop Working Correctly

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#5 My Thermometer Has Reached Its Limit In The French Heatwave

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#6 Early Autumn

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#7 Hot Enough For You? Hotter Than It Used To Be, And Getting Hotter Every Year. This, From Kuwait

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#8 Can I Cool My Cat With Wet Towels On Very Hot Days?

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#9 This Church Always Has Great Signs, But I Guess This Heatwave Is Getting To Them

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#10 “How Hot Is It Today, Hun? Hot Enough To Shatter Our Outdoor Table”

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#11 When It’s Too Hot Outside And It’s Too Hot Inside So You Kinda Hang In Between. I Know The Weather Is Awful For Us Humans But Please Take Care Of Your Pets Too

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#12 Our Cat Confirming The Heat Wave In India

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#13 Hedgehog Came Out To Us. Due To The Very Hot Weather In Belgium We Thought It Was Thirsty And It Was. Cat Approves

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#14 If You Have A Garden, Try To Leave A Bowl Of Water Out. Wildlife Suffers From This Heat As Much As We Do

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#15 Human Lets Stray Dogs Sleep In His Store So They Can Cool Down In Hot Weather

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#16 Europe’s Hottest Week

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#17 A Neighbor Put Out A Doggy Station With Treats And Water. To Help Dogs Cool Down During The Heat Wave We Are Having

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#18 I Gave This Pregnant Cat An Ice-Cold Bottle Of Gatorade To Hold On To During A Peruvian Heatwave

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#19 Hot Days Even For Ice Cream

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#20 My Local Library Being A Bro During A Heat Wave

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#21 Luton Airport’s Runway Has Melted Due To The Intense Heat

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#22 Sith-Fil-A Here In The Texas Heat

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#23 Wonderful

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#24 Measured The Road Temperature Outside My House – Don’t Walk Dogs In This Heat

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#25 Spotted Today. Mancunians Are The Best

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#26 Here’s How Hot It Is In Portland Right Now. This Is My Neighbor’s House And The Vinyl Siding Is Blistering Off His House Under The Sun In The 108-Degree Heat

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#27 Wild

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#28 You Know It’s Hot When The Plastic Slides Are Melting

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#29 Delicious

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#30 Patch Of Grass That Was Saved By The Trampoline During The UK Heatwave In July

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