Wolf Cukier, a 17-year-old student from New York started his internship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt back in 2019. Three days into his internship, the young boy discovered a brand new planet lying in a system 1,300 light-years away from us.
Back in 2019, during his internship at NASA, a 17-year-old high school student discovered a new planet, now known as TOI 1338b
“I was looking through the data for everything the volunteers had flagged as an eclipsing binary, a system where two stars circle around each other and, from our view, eclipse each other every orbit,” Wolf Cukier told CNN. “About three days into my internship, I saw a signal from a system called TOI 1338b. At first, I thought it was a stellar eclipse, but the timing was wrong. It turned out to be a planet.”
The planet is circumbinary, which means that it orbits two stars instead of one
Recently, a few generated images of TOI 1388b were released and, since then, have taken the internet by storm
These images that have circulated on the Internet shows, that the planet is of beautiful pastel color appearance. All these mesmerising colors such as bubblegum pink, soft purple, lavender, and light green shades, gives you a fairytale vibe.
In just a few days, the images received 1.2M likes and over 224k retweets on Twitter
These images aren’t of a real planet. These were created by some people putting their creative minds at work. “We don’t have telescopes yet capable to resolve all the planets in our solar system (we just recently found out what Pluto looks like after we sent a spacecraft close to it), let alone any exoplanets from other star systems. That won’t change in the next 50 years, realistically,” a Twitter user commented. “We cant take photos that far… but it’s real… it’s just artistic depiction of the planet,” another user added.
Of course, the internet had a lot to say about this fabulous planet
A few pointed out that BTS, Harry Styles, and Ariana Grande may have been the first ones to discover TOI 1388b
Many knew EXACTLY what this planet looks (and even tastes) like
And some were instantly ready to move there
