Scientists around the world take many years to do any
research, but sometimes a scientific research or discovery is accidental.
And the same coincidence happened with a 17-year-old intern
who conducted a 2-month internship at the US space research institute, NASA,
who just completed a new feat on the third day of her internship.
Wolf Choir, a 17-year-old student from the United States,
surprised NASA experts when he discovered a new planet off Earth during data
analysis of a space satellite.
Student Wolf Choir discovered a planet 13,000 light years
away from Earth, which is about 7 times larger than our Earth and there is not
one but 2 suns.
However, NASA initially found fault with the student's
discovered planet, so the US space agency conducted further research and now
NASA has confirmed that the student was correct.
A NASA statement said that a Wolf Choir student came to him
last summer to do an internship at a Goddard Space Flight Center near
Washington, DC.
On the third day after the start of the internship, the
student reviewed the planet's satellite data and searched the planet, but
initially the student was not confirmed.
Speaking to the British Broadcasting BBC, Wolf Choir said he
was tasked with conducting a satellite data review at the center where he was
interned.
He said that two days after the internship was completed, at
the beginning of the third day, he searched the planet after receiving a unique
signal from the satellite while reviewing the data.
The space satellite data the student reviewed was sent by
NASA 2 years ago to identify planets outside the Earth.
According to NASA, the planet Wolf Quarry has discovered is
difficult to observe from Earth, and it is about 13,000 light years away from
our system.
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| Initially the student was not convinced - Photo: BBC News |
According to NASA, the planet that was discovered was named
'TOI 1383', which was initially thought to be the Earth's sun and was believed
to have received Earth's eclipse content.
NASA acknowledged that further research on the new planet
discovered by the Internet confirmed that it was not a ground sun but a new
planet with 2 suns.
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The planet being discovered has 2 suns or stars - screenshot / NASA
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NASA said that the satellite is named 'Tess' and that the
satellite has four cameras that are extremely large and that the four cameras
take photos of the sky and space every 30 minutes, and that the satellite's
cameras are in operation for a month Repeats 27 days.
The satellite sends all the material to NASA's ground
centers, where it is reviewed and the planet was revealed during the review.
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New planet discovered with special satellite data sent to space - Photo: NASA
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