1 February 2021, 3:40 am EST By Two high school students discovered four new exoplanets using NASA s TESS. ( Screenshot from YouTube/CrashCourse )
Two high school kids have finally applied what they have learned from their astronomy class after stumbling through a sudden discovery of four new exoplanets using NASA s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite). The future seems bright for aspiring astronomers in the future.
Two High Schoolers Came Across Space for a New Finding
January is full of astronomical events that have been sighted upon revelation, and yet, two students from highschool made the cut for a new planetary uncovering after seeing never-before-seen exoplanets that are roaming freely in the vast space.
High School Students Discover Four Exoplanets About 200 Light-Years Away From Earth
1 month, 2 weeks
It has recently come to light that four new exoplanets have been discovered that are about 200-light-years away from Earth! The discovery has been made by two high school students who were part of the Student Research Mentoring Program (SRMP) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
As per the reports, two high schoolers, Jasmine Wright, 18 and Kartik Pinglé, 16, made the discovery and their work has been published in the Astronomical Journal. “We report the discovery and validation of four extrasolar planets hosted by the nearby, bright, Sun-like (G3V) star HD 108236 using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). We present transit photometry, reconnaissance, and precise Doppler spectroscopy, as well as high-resolution imaging, to validate the planetary nature of the objects transiting H
TESS reveals triple-binary eclipsing star system & Sun-like star with extremely close exoplanets
January 29, 2021
The first-discovered triple-binary sextuple star system and a Sun-like star with five exoplanets orbiting within the distance of Mercury are just two recent examples of the extraordinary systems being investigated and discovered by scientist using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS.
The joint NASA-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) mission is the cornerstone of two recently presented discoveries that characterize two tantalizing systems and their benefit to understanding stellar system formation.
A sextuplly-eclipsing sextuple system
Finding a system with six stars is rare to begin with. Finding such a system with three sets of binaries, all of which are eclipsing binaries when viewed from Earth is even more rare.