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NASA intern Wolf Cukier helps TESS find an exoplanet, TOI 1338 b, orbiting two stars
FirstpostTOI 1388b is orbiting two stars in a constellation called the Pictor, which is situated nearly 1,300 lightyears from the Earth. Wolf Cukier, a high schooler interning at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre, spotted a celestial body orbiting two stars in a constellation called the Pictor, which is situated nearly 1,300 lightyears from the Earth. Christened as TOI 1388b, the newly identified exoplanet is between Neptune and Saturn in terms of size and orbits two stars one of which is 15 per cent larger than our Sun, while the other is considerably smaller. Wolf told CNN, “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.
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