Call it luck, but not dumb luck. Just three days into Wolf Cukier’s summer internship with the American space agency NASA, he found a new planet. The 17-year-old high school student was tasked with looking through data from a telescope in search of evidence of planets outside our solar system. “I was pretty much spending my summer looking at graphs on a computer screen.” And on his third day with NASA, Cukier found it: a previously unknown planet orbiting two stars. Cukier was looking at data produced by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, known as TESS. Although he did not see the physical planet, he saw clear evidence of it. “I couldn't say that I was confident it was a planet because it was day three on the job. And I couldn't say anything with confidence quite yet.”
Title: Teen Discovers Planet on Day Three of Internship
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/wolf.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Teen Discovers Planet on Day Three of Internship' data-article-id='4402'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='5167'>Call it luck, but not dumb luck.</span> <span data-start-time='5167' data-end-time='17708'>Just three days into Wolf Cukier’s summer internship with the American space agency NASA, he found a new planet.</span> <span data-start-time='17708' data-end-time='34333'>The 17-year-old high school student was tasked with looking through data from a telescope in search of evidence of planets outside our solar system.</span> <span data-start-time='34333' data-end-time='39354'>“I was pretty much spending my summer looking at graphs on a computer screen.”</span> <span data-start-time='39354' data-end-time='45563'>And on his third day with NASA, Cukier found it:</span> <span data-start-time='45563' data-end-time='51917'>a previously unknown planet orbiting two stars.</span> <span data-start-time='51917' data-end-time='63083'>Cukier was looking at data produced by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, known as TESS.</span> <span data-start-time='63083' data-end-time='69917'>Although he did not see the physical planet, he saw clear evidence of it.</span> <span data-start-time='69917' data-end-time='77750'>“I couldn't say that I was confident it was a planet because it was day three on the job.</span> <span data-start-time='77750' data-end-time='82417'>And I couldn't say anything with confidence quite yet.”</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/wolf.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=14284 data-hint-location='17708' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/what_was_the_student_looking_at.wav'>What was the student looking at?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='data'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/a_telescope.wav'><span>a telescope</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/planets.wav'><span>planets</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/stars.wav'><span>stars</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/data.wav'><span>data</span></div></div></div><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=14283 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/what_does_dumb_luck_mean.wav'>What does dumb luck mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='happen by chance'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/find_a_new_planet.wav'><span>find a new planet</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/looking_at_graphs.wav'><span>looking at graphs</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/happen_by_chance.wav'><span>happen by chance</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/previously_unknown.wav'><span>previously unknown</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=14285 data-hint-location='63083' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/he_saw_clear_evidence_of__blank_.wav'>He saw clear evidence of <span class='blank'>a planet</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='a planet'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/a_new_star.wav'><span>a new star</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/satellite_surveys.wav'><span>satellite surveys</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/a_planet.wav'><span>a planet</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3893/a_computer_screen.wav'><span>a computer screen</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>
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