Have you
ever worked as an intern in your life? If yes, you might know the hectic work
that you have got to do. You might have done all the jobs that were ignored by
everyone. Perhaps, making coffee and hauling around boxes full of documents.
But, it's not the same with this 17-year-old Wolf Cukier, a NASA intern from
New York. This teenager ended up discovering something amazing just 3 days into
his internship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt in 2019. He
succeeded in finding a brand new planet which is located in a distance of 1,300
light-years from the Earth. This planet has a unique pastel-colored look and it
was named the TOI 1338b. The
pastel-colored designs on the planet have made it look like a bomb.
17-year-old
Wolf Cukier ended up founding the newest planet of all.
Image
credits: NASA Goddard
Wolf
explained that he will look forward for more details that were requested by the
volunteers, during an interview with CNN.
“About three days into my internship, I saw a signal from a system
called TOI 1338b. At first, I thought it was a stellar eclipse, but the timing
was wrong. It turned out to be a planet,” said the intern.
This
specific planet seems to orbit 2 stars making it circumbinary.
Image
credits: NASA Goddard
Image
credits: NASA Goddard
“One is
about 10% more massive than our Sun, while the other is cooler, dimmer and only
one-third the Sun’s mass,” described NASA Goddard. The novel planet is about 7
times larger than the Earth. Newly generated images of TOI 1388b were recently
released and they are really mesmerizing.
Here are
some of the recently released generated pictures of the TOI 1388b. Most of the
people fell in love with these fantastic images.
Image
credits: paintwater_boba
These
stunning pictures have grabbed the whole attention of Twitter within seconds
gathering more than 1.2 million likes in just a few days.
The
striking images of the planet collected more than 1.2M likes and 224k retweets
within a few days.
Image
credits: paintwater_boba
Image
credits: paintwater_boba
Image
credits: paintwater_boba
All these
pictures have been created with the help of a bot as there are no telescopes
with the ability to capture such a distance clearly. “That won’t change in the
next 50 years, realistically,” stated one of the Twitter users.
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