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Intern Discovers a New Planet š
So a 17-year-old kid, Wolf Cukier, discovered a new planet in his first week on an Internship with NASAā¦
How is your internship going?
āHis job was to scrutinize data that had been beamed back from outer space by TESS, or theĀ Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
A unique aspect of the TESS project is that itĀ invites regular peopleĀ to volunteer to watchĀ the online transmission for patternsĀ in star brightness that might suggest the existence of a new planet, a sort of crowdsourcing of the universe.
During the first week of the internship, as he sifted through data that had been flagged by citizen-scientists, he zeroed in on a system that included two orbiting stars. He identified a body in that system that was later verified as a planet about 6.9 times as large as Earth. His colleagues gave the system a name, TOI 1338, an acronym for TESS Object of Interest, and then called the planet TOI 1338 b.
(read more - NYT)
Itās the first time that a planet has been discovered through the TESS system since the project began in April 2018.
The TESS project uses tiny regular dips in starlight, know as transits, to look for planets. TOI 1338 b is orbiting two stars that orbit each other, and from our earthly perspective, it is detected when it crosses the path of the stars causing a slight dip in the light emitted.
Despite all the data collected, it was actually quite a feat on Wolfās part to identify the likelihood of a planet amongst it.
A Twitter user shared computer renders of what the planet could look like, they are generated by AI by @AmongBot, but boy is she pretty.
At 1,300 light-years away itās a hard task to snap a pic.
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A Focus on Process Vs Outcome
Hopefully, you can read this without clicking into it, someone shared this I really liked this sentiment.
I figured it was particularly relevant to those grinding away during this lockdown, with a lot of time to think about where they want to be and where they arenāt yet.
ā¦ although donāt overcomplicate the process either, process for the sake of process will inevitably slow things down, itās a balance š
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An art installation of pink seesaws that allow kids to interact across the US-Mexico border has won the āBeazley 2020 Design of the Yearā award, presented by The Design Museum in London. (See BBC)
This is both heartwarming and heartbreakingā¦
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Golf carts are much cheaper than cars, but if someone is driving around in a golf cart itās safe to assume theyāre disgustingly rich.
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Good context on recent events.
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