{"id":100693,"date":"2020-01-11T01:46:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T09:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/theres-something-here-teen-discovers-new-planet-while-interning-at-nasa"},"modified":"2020-01-11T01:46:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T09:46:20","slug":"theres-something-here-teen-discovers-new-planet-while-interning-at-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/theres-something-here-teen-discovers-new-planet-while-interning-at-nasa","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s something here\u2019: teen discovers new planet while interning at NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-something-here-teen-discovers-new-planet-while-interning-at-nasa2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assigned to study how two stars would cross paths creating an eclipse, he focused on the solar system TOI 1338, where he noticed something in the orbit of two stars that was blocking the light.<\/p>\n<p>His bosses spent several weeks verifying his observation, and ultimately concluded that Cukier had discovered a planet 6.9 times larger than Earth and only the 13th planet of its kind ever discovered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was looking through the data for everything the volunteers had flagged as an eclipsing binary, a system where two stars circle around each other and from our view eclipse each other every orbit,\u201d Cukier said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2020\/nasa-s-tess-mission-uncovers-its-1st-world-with-two-stars\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" class=\"\">according to a NASA<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2020\/nasa-s-tess-mission-uncovers-its-1st-world-with-two-stars\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" class=\"\"> press release.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assigned to study how two stars would cross paths creating an eclipse, he focused on the solar system TOI 1338, where he noticed something in the orbit of two stars that was blocking the light. His bosses spent several weeks verifying his observation, and ultimately concluded that Cukier had discovered a planet 6.9 times larger [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}