Meet the NASA intern who discovered a new planet on his third day
Wolf, who is now back at high school in Scarsdale, New York, has been speaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat about his amazing discovery.
So just three days in, when most of us would still be making the tea, he was looking at a solar system many light years away from ours and noticed something blocking the light of two stars."I took it to my mentor, we looked at the data from the stars and noticed two additional dips in light, so we started doing analysis to see if it actually could be a planet.
Fans of Star Wars might recall that Luke Skywalker's fictional home, Tatooine, was a circumbinary planet. This comparison is not lost on Wolf, who points out that he is actually wearing a Star Wars t-shirt today. Today, he wears his NASA fleece with pride . Not a gift from the agency to reward him for his achievements, he explains, but bought with a discount in the employee shop.NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWolf spotted a pattern which suggested a planet was regularly passing in front of two stars
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