This New York teen reached for the stars and found a one-of-a-kind planet.
You Gotta See This: The high school student who discovered a new planetteen reached for the stars last summer and found a one-of-a-kind planet.
It turned out that darkness was a planet 6.9 times larger than Earth that orbited two stars, what scientists call a circumbinary planet."I had a lot of data in my notes that day about extremities in the binaries," Cukier said."But when I saw this one, I put 10 asterisks next to it." The two suns in the solar system in question, TOI 1338, varied in size, with one being about 10% more massive than Earth's sun and the other 30% of the sun's mass, NASA said. Because the two suns orbit each other every 15 days, it was harder to distinguish the transit events from the planet, dubbed TOI 1338-b, which take place every 93 to 95 days, according to NASA.
Planet TOI 1338 b is pictured orbiting two stars in an undated illustration released by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.Cukier said it was tough trying to prove his discovery but the data kept pointing to a stronger confirmation.
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