'I was pretty excited. Coming into the internship, it would be hard to say that I expected to find a planet,' Wolf Cukier said.
Circumbinary planets are worlds which orbit two stars—something which had never been discovered before in the TESS data. But just three days into the internship, Cukier was able to identify one of these worlds in a star system located around 1,300 light-years away.
"The TESS data, at the time, was still under a year old," Cukier said."So finding one just that early in general was fun. And also I don't think [my manager] expected me to find one so early either." A paper regarding the discovery—which is co-authored by Cukier, alongside scientists from Goddard and several other institutions—has been submitted for publication in a scientific journal.
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