Wolf Cukier, a 17-year-old high school student from New York, even went on to co-author an academic paper
The best most teenagers hope for from a summer internship is some work experience, beer money and perhaps a good reference.
He had been trawling through satellite images flagged by members of the public where the brightness of a star seemed to temporarily dip. Flagging what he saw to his supervisors, over the coming days his more experienced colleagues grew in confidence that Wolf was right — he had found a planet.More unusually, the planet orbits two stars, going around them once every 95 days.
“There are PhD candidates who would die to have the type of opportunities that Wolf has lucked into in this internship,” Beth Cukier, his delighted mother told CBS New York. “It was an amazing, cool bit of serendipity.”
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