So, a 15-Year-Old Intern Discovered a New Planet
When I was 15, I spent a lot of time playing Nintendo 64 in a dark basement. Tom Wagg, on the other hand, discovered a new planet 1,000 lightyears away. The British planet-finder is 17 now. But two years ago, during an internship at Keele University, he found WASP-142b, a star-orbiting exoplanet whose existence took…
