Astronomical talent 15 years old

With a report published in Nature, a 15-year-old student helped change the way scientists know about the formation of galaxies.

Neil Ibata helped his father Rodrigo Ibata, working at the Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory (France), who led a team of experts studying dwarf galaxies around the galaxies Tien Nu, the closest neighbor of the Strip. The galaxy, has a new perspective on the evolution of galaxies.

"Astronomer" child Neil Ibata

Accordingly, the new study observes 13 small satellite galaxies around the Tien Nu galaxy, in the way the planets orbit the sun.

They move on a disk-shaped orbit with a size 900 million times our solar system.

The computer model designed by Neil Ibata revealed a notable information, dwarf galaxies seem to move in sync and align within the giant disk.

'I have been waiting for something completely different (with what Neil has provided),' AFP quoted Rodrigo Ibata.

Although astronomers are still not sure about the significance of this arrangement, they argue that Neil Ibata's new discovery could completely change the understanding of how galaxies form.

Neil Ibata said he supported his father's research to learn and practice Python computer programming language.

Neil Ibata is currently studying at the International School of Pontonniers in Strasbourg, the first child in the family, fluent in 3 foreign languages, German, English and Chinese, according to Le Monde.