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Four New Exoplanets, Including A Super-Earth, Discovered by High School Students

February 1, 2021 by Ignat

Four exoplanets have been discovered around the star TOI-1233 by two high school students, making them among the youngest people to ever discover a celestial body. Sixteen-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright were participating in the Student Research Mentoring Program (SRMP) at the … Read More

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Other “Solar System” with 7 Earth-Like Planets was Found by NASA

February 23, 2017 by Ignat

Yesterday NASA announced one of the most significant discoveries of potentially habitable planets in recent years – The first known system of seven planets the size of Earth orbiting a Star. Three of those planets certainly are in the … Read More