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A Pair of High Schoolers Just Discovered Four Exoplanets – InsideHook
Two high school students, working as part of a mentorship program, discovered four exoplanets in a distant solar system.
What was your time in high school like? Did you, for instance, discover any stars or planets? If you answered in the negative, then Jasmine Wright and Kartik Pinglé 18 and 16, respectively might have you beat. The two high schoolers discovered four planets orbiting a star roughly 200 lightyears from Earth.
A new article at Smithsonian Magazine ventures into how Wright and Pinglé accomplished this and the program that paired them with their mentor, Tansu Daylan. The three of them are among the co-authors…
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