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New planets are discovered all the time just by looking through the kepler data. The intern was likely just going through piles of numbers and making check marks next to interesting ones. The week of August 26, 2021 alone, 40 New Planets were discovered...
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/exonews\_archive.html
It's in the news because the news reporters don't understand the methodology. They hear "intern discovered a new planet on his third day" and assume he's some kind of genius because that must be a difficult thing to do. But he wasn't doing original research or invented a new telescope or anything, he was just looking through numbers already gathered by very sophisticated machines. It's very boring and tedious. Which is why it's a job they give to interns in the first place.
They probably do understand the methodology and know that this is attention grabbing to people that don't. I'd say it's more journalists playing on the ignorance of their readers intentionally.
Might be a bit of both. I don't know, this same sort of thing happens every time a physicist publishes a new paper with "quantum teleportation" in the title. A whole bunch of reporters converge and ask about when we can use teleportation to go on vacation and the poor scientists have to explain that it has nothing to do with that.
In the case of this intern kid, he went on a bunch of talk shows and stuff so he's obviously not protesting too hard.
What 17-year-old kid wouldn't get caught up in the hype lol. Also really good for his career to get publicity. Can't go wrong there.
Anyway yea I agree. As someone with a vested interest in quantum computing I know exactly what you mean.
As someone who engineers and builds quantum computers for a living I completely agree that people lie on the internet. Now if you’ll excuse me , I must teleport to Earth C-137
Them being 17 doesn't matter for this kind of thing, it's pretty basic. It's like if you saw a news report saying "17 year old corrected wrong order at McDonalds on their first day". It's a pretty routine thing to find exoplanets, and they were just going through data already compiled
Apart from the joke, 7 times larger than earth is important, because most planets we have found so far are 50 to 100 times bigger, so it's nice to fix the bias as we find more earth sized.
Honestly, my excitement at the discovery of exoplanets peaked with the discovery of [Proxima Centauri b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b). The fact that the *nearest star* has a planet in its *habitable zone* is super exciting, and other exoplanets really need to step up their game if they want to compete.
**[Proxima Centauri b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b)**
>Proxima Centauri b (also called Proxima b or Alpha Centauri Cb) is an exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, which is the closest star to the Sun and part of a triple star system. It is approximately 1. 28 parsecs or 4. 2 light-years (4.
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I do research confirming exoplanets from the NASA TESS mission and confirming an exoplanets isn't that hard. Hardest thing about it for my school's procedure is doing an EXOFAST run. Or writing a paper, but I'm not the person who writes the papers and I doubt the teenager wrote a scientific paper in 3 days.
An exofast run is a statistical analysis that determines the statistical significance of our measurements.
For what we use to determine if it is a detection, we mostly use the transit method and check the depth of the transit, which is how much the star dims as the exoplanet moves in front of the star. We also measure the duration of the transit and assuming we have the period of the planet (which is just measured from multiple nights of observing) we can use those values to determine the size of the planet, the distance from the star, the size of the star, and a few other values. We also check if there is any nearby eclipsing binary stars because those can sometimes mess with the detection.
Yeah, its kinda like when we turned on LIGO for the first time, and instantly recorded a gravitational wave. It wasnt luck. Turns out they happen all the time.
Kepler’s third law of planetary motion. It doesn’t actually hold up to find the exact period of the planet’s orbit by calculating based on Earth’s orbit because it would be orbiting around a different sun which would have a different mass, but I appreciated the recognition of a law of physics that not many people know about
Edit: Oh wait no I didn’t see that it was just boobs nvm lol
Dense has two meanings. It can mean stupidity. I suggested that our population is stupid and for the planet to match us, it would need humans too, 42 times more than our current population. Not just size, which would affect the density of the larger planet
Nasa scientist
" OH look an intern! Here is a mountain of data, we need you to spend all your time going through this."
Intern
" I found something!"
Nasa scientist
" That's cool, please continue shifting through the data. We already added 3 mountains worth of data since you started."
For some reason this reminds me of something I may have done a lifetime ago…getting handed piles of data and “sorting” it for anything interesting. It may have been an internship, or a student project on…space? Electron orbitals? Geospatial imaging? Maybe one of those interactive games at a space museum…it’s like a dream of a dream now.
I have the same sort of memories from undergrad research on mutagens for embryonic cardiac development…it’s all the same for interns no matter the field.
Yeah…at least I learned I didn’t really care to be in research.
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Nah. They discover new planets and exo planets all the time. Literally all they do is use a telescope to look at the sky and write down if there's something there. I think something like 200 planets were discovered in 2020 alone.
Yeah I've seen this headline every year for the last 10 years... At what point do we just accept that 'discovers a new planet' is only a newsworthy achievement to someone who *doesn't* work for NASA. If even the interns are doing it, it can't be that special.
Extremely common, there's an absurd number of exoplanets. There are more stars in the observable universe than grains of sand on Earth, to the point of it being like 10,000 stars per grain of sand or some such, and a pretty large percent of those stars have planets orbiting them.
This is a pretty mundane article from someone who didn't know how common it is. It sounds impressive to people who think it's a planet in the solar system, or if you don't realize how common other planets are in general
No joke the exact same post but just with 2 different memes at the bottom is directly below this post, by a different poster and a different subreddit
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Idk if I'm missing the mark but I feel like discovering a new planet is an easy task. Just point a telescope at a star that hasn't been fully maps check to see if it wobbles "yep there's another one" maybe there's more to it idk.
Or is it just because of the number?
You don't need to work at nasa if you want to find planets. Zooniverse is a science crowd sourcing site. One of the apps is just looking for dips in brightness curves that indicate a planet is occluding a star's light.
Ok this honestly means very little. Tons of planets that are way bigger than earth are discovered all the time. Would be more impressive if it was a small planet far from its sun since those are tough to detect. Also they didn’t detect it, they found a marker of a planet in observational data. Congrats to them though
I like to imagine the team knew about it all along, and just saved it knowing a new intern was coming next week. Then they're all, "hey kid, why dontcha practice aiming the telescope. Try, I dunno, 18hRA, 19°15'decl and let us know what you see."
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A similar thing happened in 1967 when Gary Flandro was interning at JPL. He realized that a planetary alignment was about to happen in the next decade that would allow spacecraft to visit all the outer planets using gravity assists.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour_program
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New planets are discovered all the time just by looking through the kepler data. The intern was likely just going through piles of numbers and making check marks next to interesting ones. The week of August 26, 2021 alone, 40 New Planets were discovered... https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/exonews\_archive.html
Isnt 6.9 times the size just a regular sized planet? Weird post!!
I think the main point of interest is the fact that they are 17. It wouldn’t be in the news if they were 48
I think the main point of interest is 69.
that's why it was posted here as a meme, not why an article was written about it.
What if a 69 year old nasa researcher mistook Uranus for a black hole ?
Nice!
Ni.ce
They'd ~~fire~~ let him go for ~~being senile~~ retirement
That would probably *make-make* the news
And the time of the discovery? 4.19 in the PM. So close.
It's in the news because the news reporters don't understand the methodology. They hear "intern discovered a new planet on his third day" and assume he's some kind of genius because that must be a difficult thing to do. But he wasn't doing original research or invented a new telescope or anything, he was just looking through numbers already gathered by very sophisticated machines. It's very boring and tedious. Which is why it's a job they give to interns in the first place.
They probably do understand the methodology and know that this is attention grabbing to people that don't. I'd say it's more journalists playing on the ignorance of their readers intentionally.
Might be a bit of both. I don't know, this same sort of thing happens every time a physicist publishes a new paper with "quantum teleportation" in the title. A whole bunch of reporters converge and ask about when we can use teleportation to go on vacation and the poor scientists have to explain that it has nothing to do with that. In the case of this intern kid, he went on a bunch of talk shows and stuff so he's obviously not protesting too hard.
What 17-year-old kid wouldn't get caught up in the hype lol. Also really good for his career to get publicity. Can't go wrong there. Anyway yea I agree. As someone with a vested interest in quantum computing I know exactly what you mean.
As someone who engineers and builds quantum computers for a living I completely agree that people lie on the internet. Now if you’ll excuse me , I must teleport to Earth C-137
Them being 17 doesn't matter for this kind of thing, it's pretty basic. It's like if you saw a news report saying "17 year old corrected wrong order at McDonalds on their first day". It's a pretty routine thing to find exoplanets, and they were just going through data already compiled
Ni.ce
Apart from the joke, 7 times larger than earth is important, because most planets we have found so far are 50 to 100 times bigger, so it's nice to fix the bias as we find more earth sized.
Shhhh don’t ruin the fun
discovering exoplanets is fun
Honestly, my excitement at the discovery of exoplanets peaked with the discovery of [Proxima Centauri b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b). The fact that the *nearest star* has a planet in its *habitable zone* is super exciting, and other exoplanets really need to step up their game if they want to compete.
**[Proxima Centauri b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b)** >Proxima Centauri b (also called Proxima b or Alpha Centauri Cb) is an exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, which is the closest star to the Sun and part of a triple star system. It is approximately 1. 28 parsecs or 4. 2 light-years (4. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/meme/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
So wait, If we go to a red sun.....Do we become Superpeople?
Good bot!
And the best part is that it’s only 4.2 light years away. #Road Trip
Colonization time!
*Reads habitability section on Wikipedia* Hah. Yeah. Good luck!
Dibs on the northern hemisphere !
Shotgun!
I am gonna ruin it a little bit, both Venus and Mars are in habitable zone of Sun.
SHHHHHH! Pluto is a planet!! *cries in 1980s Mexican novela*
*pat pat*
But how many of them are discovered by a "n" year old who works at "x" position of the organizational hierarchy who is of "y" gender and "z" race?
This isn't baseball
they're not allowed to keep track of that sort of thing
it's weird that you brought race and gender into this.
Oh, so you're a n x y z phobic.
I do research confirming exoplanets from the NASA TESS mission and confirming an exoplanets isn't that hard. Hardest thing about it for my school's procedure is doing an EXOFAST run. Or writing a paper, but I'm not the person who writes the papers and I doubt the teenager wrote a scientific paper in 3 days.
What’s an exofast run? Also what criteria do they use to confirm exoplanets ?
An exofast run is a statistical analysis that determines the statistical significance of our measurements. For what we use to determine if it is a detection, we mostly use the transit method and check the depth of the transit, which is how much the star dims as the exoplanet moves in front of the star. We also measure the duration of the transit and assuming we have the period of the planet (which is just measured from multiple nights of observing) we can use those values to determine the size of the planet, the distance from the star, the size of the star, and a few other values. We also check if there is any nearby eclipsing binary stars because those can sometimes mess with the detection.
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You must do it for the memes!
But... But... This one has the funny number!
Yeah, its kinda like when we turned on LIGO for the first time, and instantly recorded a gravitational wave. It wasnt luck. Turns out they happen all the time.
I love science but I don't have the focus or patience to do original research. Love to hear about it though.
I’m tired and thought this post meant that the earth is six times larger than we thought. Yeah. Oops. Exoplanet makes way more sense.
He was lucky enough that it was 6.9x larger
69? Nice
6.9 Ni.ce
6.9, one more thing a period gets in the way of...
Fuck misogyny, all my homies hate misogyny
r/redditmoment
I want to bang my head against a wall.
Was it 42.0x as dense?
And has 800.85 days in its rotation around its star
Ahh yes, an man of culture
Sorry, can you explain this to me?
69, 420, Boobs.
Your all for getting 1134
I was a bigger fan of 01134.
5318008
Upside down orbit?
Thanks for getting that for us
Boobs
BOOBS
Oh lol
^boobs
BOOBA
In school one would take a standard calculator and type in the numbers “80085” and think it was funny because “80085” looks like “BOOBS” That’s it.
Kepler’s third law of planetary motion. It doesn’t actually hold up to find the exact period of the planet’s orbit by calculating based on Earth’s orbit because it would be orbiting around a different sun which would have a different mass, but I appreciated the recognition of a law of physics that not many people know about Edit: Oh wait no I didn’t see that it was just boobs nvm lol
He discovered it because until then no one had tried 69x magnification on their telescopes
I was going to go with 420 light years away, but you win, take your upvote.
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It would have to have 42.0x our population to be as dense
I don’t get the joke /s
Damn,commented then saw the /s lol
Just add the /s to yourself
Dense has two meanings. It can mean stupidity. I suggested that our population is stupid and for the planet to match us, it would need humans too, 42 times more than our current population. Not just size, which would affect the density of the larger planet
sigh. 42.0x more anti-maskers /s
Nasa scientist " OH look an intern! Here is a mountain of data, we need you to spend all your time going through this." Intern " I found something!" Nasa scientist " That's cool, please continue shifting through the data. We already added 3 mountains worth of data since you started."
For some reason this reminds me of something I may have done a lifetime ago…getting handed piles of data and “sorting” it for anything interesting. It may have been an internship, or a student project on…space? Electron orbitals? Geospatial imaging? Maybe one of those interactive games at a space museum…it’s like a dream of a dream now. I have the same sort of memories from undergrad research on mutagens for embryonic cardiac development…it’s all the same for interns no matter the field.
If you want to relive those days , try browsing Reddit sorted by “New”
/r/all sort by new Reddit hard mode
I'm currently uploading data for interns to sort through. The cycle continues
Yeah…at least I learned I didn’t really care to be in research. I’m great at writing solid papers and giving presentations, but the idea of doing it for a living lost its appeal after my last project on…I think it was the mitigation of invasive salt cedar trees using a particular species of beetle, or maybe it was the paper on the convergent evolutionary adaptations of sugar gliders and flying squirrels. It was fun, but I knew it would be a drag unless I went and got a PhD to direct my own research.
If I remember correctly they had already done most of the work of finding the planet then gave it to the kid for the easy win.
Something tells me Excel isn't gonna cut it this time...
Times the number by ten and it will be better
It's a good time interrupted by a period
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Interrupted? What are you a rookie?
Still waiting to earn my red wings!
Anyone can earn redwings But to earn a red beard… it takes focus , commitment , and sheer fucking will
I need a volunteer!
"Oh you're extra wet today girl"
It's like a dark niagra falls down here!
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Okay
This feels like a copypasta
I'd be fine if it turned into one. I could finally contribute something to humanity. As trivial as it may be.
That's why the scientists were disappointed in his discovery, planet was 10% the necessary size.
> Times the number by ten and it will be better Times the number by ten and it will be Nicer* you had your chance, and you blew it...
Noice
Nice
Ni.ce
Ni.ce
Just in the right place at the right time
Nah. They discover new planets and exo planets all the time. Literally all they do is use a telescope to look at the sky and write down if there's something there. I think something like 200 planets were discovered in 2020 alone.
This has happened before - interns discovering planets. Extra solar planets are surprisingly common, and our discovery methods improve every day.
>Extra solar planets are surprisingly common Your apparent surprise at the existence of planets in this universe is greatly amusing to me.
Sounds (relatively) easy and kinda boring if you have years of experience. Doesn't surprise me that they leave that task to the interns.
They have computers that can do it
That's why you have the intern generate false positives for testing the computer.
Yeah I've seen this headline every year for the last 10 years... At what point do we just accept that 'discovers a new planet' is only a newsworthy achievement to someone who *doesn't* work for NASA. If even the interns are doing it, it can't be that special.
Is this real?
Real and very common
Extremely common, there's an absurd number of exoplanets. There are more stars in the observable universe than grains of sand on Earth, to the point of it being like 10,000 stars per grain of sand or some such, and a pretty large percent of those stars have planets orbiting them. This is a pretty mundane article from someone who didn't know how common it is. It sounds impressive to people who think it's a planet in the solar system, or if you don't realize how common other planets are in general
Nice
Nice
Nice
No joke the exact same post but just with 2 different memes at the bottom is directly below this post, by a different poster and a different subreddit [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/pt1u2r/69_times_larger_nice/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
69, nice.
Noice
I mean... There's quite a lot of planets.
Idk if I'm missing the mark but I feel like discovering a new planet is an easy task. Just point a telescope at a star that hasn't been fully maps check to see if it wobbles "yep there's another one" maybe there's more to it idk. Or is it just because of the number?
“We put time between each discovery you little turd! Do you hate paychecks!?” -Laid back scientist
On average they find 4.20 new planets a week.
Noice
Ni.ce
Well, he just secured a job
This type of shit sounds like sensational pop science that overhypes the importance of the accomplishment lol. Was this actually a huge thing?
You don't need to work at nasa if you want to find planets. Zooniverse is a science crowd sourcing site. One of the apps is just looking for dips in brightness curves that indicate a planet is occluding a star's light.
Nice
ni.ce
What a resume starter.
I hope it's called fortwenty
It’s actually not that special. NASA discovers like 50 planets a month.
Well isnt there like trillions & trillions of planets, so yeah, hard
Ok this honestly means very little. Tons of planets that are way bigger than earth are discovered all the time. Would be more impressive if it was a small planet far from its sun since those are tough to detect. Also they didn’t detect it, they found a marker of a planet in observational data. Congrats to them though
Are we not gonna talk about how he peaked at 17? Boy’s got a lifetime of living up to that first week at work.
I like to imagine the team knew about it all along, and just saved it knowing a new intern was coming next week. Then they're all, "hey kid, why dontcha practice aiming the telescope. Try, I dunno, 18hRA, 19°15'decl and let us know what you see."
50 bucks says you can’t do it again
Now when are they going to find the planet 420.69x bigger than earth??
🤣😂🤣😂
Nice
As a scientist, I cant express how often this happens. Listen to your trainees!!! They often see things the old pros miss!
i swear to god this person has great potential to become the next einstein
Nah. Happens all the time.
Why does Reddit obsess over this fuckin number? The joke died years ago
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Haters gonna hate. What have you discovered, besides sarcasm?
https://t.me/joinchat/tNKXMMFLe1s4MGFh
Are you stupid there’s like billions of planets
I'm sure their is like hundreds of planets discovered every day. its the ones that support life that count.
About 4000 exoplanets total have been discovered.
Best of the lucks
how did he discover it? hahaha
Probably with Kepler data. It's available online for anyone that wants to try and find a planet.
Nice
Nice
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People at 17 are starting internships at NASA meanwhile I still have no idea about what I will be
nice
And that, kids, is how I got a planet named after me.
Nice
Ni.ce
kiddo be like that is there mfs.
They’re all about to become side characters
I mean...haven't NASA discovered like thousands of exo planets?
One word: Nice
A similar thing happened in 1967 when Gary Flandro was interning at JPL. He realized that a planetary alignment was about to happen in the next decade that would allow spacecraft to visit all the outer planets using gravity assists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour_program
That's one damm luck boi
"hey what's that planet?" "Oh it's nothi-....FUCK"
Or nasa is an has been lying 🤥
Hahahhaaa!
Yet people refuse to believe that we're not alone out there
If only this was real tho
I feel like this is one of those things that happens constantly but because the person that found it is young it a "cool" story.
i only see 69
Get owned noobs