A 17-year-old discovered a planet 6.9 times larger than Earth on his third day of internship with NASA (via CNBCMakeIt)
"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," 17-year-old Cukier tells NASA. "About three days into my internship, I saw a signal from a system called TOI 1338. At first I thought it was a stellar eclipse, but the timing was wrong. It turned out to be a planet.
, about 1,300 light-years away from Earth. For context, the Earth's sun is between seven and nine light-minutes away.
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