Meet the 17-year-old who discovered an alien planet: A Q&A with …
2020年2月25日 · 17-year-old high school student Wolf Cukier made a major discovery on the third day of his NASA internship, when he noticed the telltale signs of a distant planet orbiting two stars.
NASA’s TESS Mission Uncovers Its 1st World With Two Stars
2020年1月7日 · In 2019, when Wolf Cukier finished his junior year at Scarsdale High School in New York, he joined NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as a summer intern. His job was to examine variations in star brightness captured by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and uploaded to the Planet Hunters TESS citizen ...
Meet the NASA intern who discovered a new planet on his third day - BBC
That's what happened to 17-year-old Wolf Cukier while helping out at the space agency in the United States. He was checking images from its super-strength satellite when he noticed...
New York teen discovers new planet while interning with NASA
2020年1月9日 · Wolf Cukier, 17, an intern at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, last July, was tasked with going through data on star brightness from the facility’s ongoing Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission or TESS. The Scarsdale High School senior was looking at a foreign system located 1,300 light-years from Earth.
Wolf Cukier - Space Physics at Princeton
From the summer of 2021 to the end of 2023, he will modeled the evolution of meteoroid dust streams, with Dr. Jamey Szalay of the Space Physics group. He published a paper on the topic: Cukier & Szalay (2023) Formation, Structure, and Detectability of the Geminids Meteoroid Stream.
About - Wolf Cukier
I’m a Graduate Student at UChicago pursuing a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics. I am generally interested in exoplanets, mostly from a theoretical or computational perspective. My current work involves modeling clouds and radiation in brown dwarfs and directly imaged giant planets. (Sci-Fi/Fantasy) Book Recommendations.
17-year-old discovers planet on third day of internship with NASA
2020年1月10日 · NASA announced the news on their website this week, after confirming the teenager’s work, submitting a paper that Cukier co-authored for scientific review and announcing the discovery of the...
How’s Your Internship Going? This Teen Found a Planet
2020年1月11日 · Last year, Wolf Cukier, 17, spent his summer vacation as few other rising seniors have: He helped discover a planet. Meet TOI 1338 b, the newly identified world orbiting two stars more than 1,300...
High School Student Discovers Planet 3 Days Into His NASA …
2020年1月9日 · Wolf Cukier uncovered TOI 1338 b — a world orbiting two stars — while examining data captured by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. A New York high school...
NASA Intern Discovers New Planet - NPR
2020年1月11日 · NASA scientists announced this week that a high school senior from Scarsdale, N.Y., named Wolf Cukier has discovered a new planet. Does he get extra credit? Mr. Cukier made the discovery just...