17-year-old student discovered a new planet

After three days of practice at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Scarsdale High School students found an exoplanet in the star system TOI 1338.

Simulate the trajectory of TOI 1338 b in binary star system.(Video: NASA).

The discovery was made by 17-year-old Wolf Cukier , based on data collected from NASA's TESS space telescope. This is the only exoplanet found in the binary star system TOI 1338 about 1,300 light-years from Earth.

The new planet, named TOI 1338 b , is 6.9 times heavier than Earth and takes 94 days to orbit the two stars (weighs 1.1 and 0.3 times the surface, respectively). Our God). It is definitely not possible to survive life due to its orbit too close to the star.

Wolf Cukier, a Scarsdale high school student.(Photo: NASA).

"TOI 1338 b is one of the 100 objects that look like exoplanets that I've been looking for. It takes some time to verify that it is a real planet and not an illusion caused by a shaking telescope." or something else, " Wolf Cukier shared.

Cukier said he felt extremely proud of what his younger brother had done and even proposed to name the new planet "Wolftopia" but was not accepted by NASA. Cukier's discovery was announced during a meeting of the 235th American Astronomical Society, held in Honolulu on January 6.