How 2 teenagers discovered 4 scientifically valuable exoplanets
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Four exoplanets have been discovered by Kartik Pinglé, 16, and Jasmine Wright, 18. Their mentor said the discovery has some serious scientific value as it "is probably one of the best targets that we will ever get" for comparison to our own planetary system.
Their paper about the newly discovered planets, which are about 200 light-years away from Earth, was published in The Astronomical Journal in January. "I remember when I came home, and I told (my parents), 'Oh, I think we discovered a multi-planetary system,' they didn't really understand that it was it was kind of a big thing," said Wright, an 18-year-old senior at Bedford High School in Bedford, Massachusetts.The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
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