Nicole Oliveira looks for asteroids as part of a NASA-affiliated programme, attending international seminars and meeting with her country's top space and science figures.
An 8-year-old girl has already made an impressive opinion on the solar system even though she has stayed on planet Earth not too long. Nicole "Nicolinha" Oliveira who is from Brazil has been nicknamed the "world's youngest astronomer." She has already succeeded in discovering 18 preliminary detections that have a high chance of being asteroids.
An eight-year-old Brazilian girl, Nicole Oliveira, has been named the youngest astronomer in the world after discovering 18 asteroids. Nicole is part of the Asteroid Hunters project, a citizen science program run by the International Astronomical Search Collaboration in partnership with the Ministry of Science in Brazil, and NASA. According to her mother, Zilma Janaca, Nicole asked […]