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MA High School Students Help Discover 4 New Planets

"I don't think anyone is too young to do anything," said Jasmine Wright of Bedford.

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16-year-old Kartik Pingle of Cambridge was part of the Student Research Mentoring Program at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge that made the discovery of four new planets.
16-year-old Kartik Pingle of Cambridge was part of the Student Research Mentoring Program at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge that made the discovery of four new planets. (CBS Boston)

CAMBRIDGE (CBS) – Scientists around the world are applauding two Boston-area high school students who made a remarkable discovery.

“I was very excited when we realized that we just discovered four new planets,” said Jasmine Wright.

It’s not something many high schoolers can say. That is, unless you’re 18-year-old Jasmine Wright of Bedford and 16-year-old Kartik Pingle of Cambridge. Both helped discover four exoplanets and co-authored a peer reviewed paper, which was published in the Astronomical Journal on January 25.

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