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Intern discovers new planet on Day 3 ...

  • 16-01-2020 11:13AM
    #1
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭


    https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-51122019
    As far as impressing your potential new boss goes, discovering a planet on day three of your internship at NASA is up there.

    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 something strange.

    It turned out to be a new planet, 1,300 light years away from Earth. News just confirmed by NASA.


    :)


Comments

  • #2
    Sabre0001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Sabre0001


    That's some achievement to kickstart your placement and career with. Where do you go from there though?! :D

    🤪



  • #3
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Sabre0001 wrote: »
    That's some achievement to kickstart your placement and career with. Where do you go from there though?! :D

    haha yeah, it could be all downhill from there :D


  • #4
    ps200306
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭ps200306


    Sabre0001 wrote: »
    Where do you go from there though?! :D


    You get selected to go down the caves when it turns out to be on a collision course with Earth. :pac:



    (Yeah, yeah, a tad unlikely with an exoplanet).


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