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Westchester High School Senior Discovers Planet During NASA Internship Westchester High School Senior Discovers Planet During NASA Internship
Westchester High School Senior Discovers Planet During NASA Internship Three days into a summer internship at NASA, 17-year-old Scarsdale High School senior Wolf Cukier discovered a brand-new planet 1,300 light-years away. Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, Cukier found a “circumbinary planet,” or a celestial object that orbits two stars. Cukier’s discovery came in June, but it was only brought to light this week by NASA at the 235th American Astronomical Society meeting in Honolulu. “I was looking through the data for everything the volunteers had flagged as an eclipsing binary, a sy…

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by Zak Failla
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Man Busted For Aggravated DWI After Wrong-Way Parking At Westchester HS Man Busted For Aggravated DWI After Wrong-Way Parking At Westchester HS
Man Busted For Aggravated DWI After Wrong-Way Parking At Westchester HS A 56-year-old driver who told police that he “only had a few glasses of wine” in White Plains was busted driving erratically with a blood alcohol content nearly triple the legal limit before coming to a stop at Scarsdale High School. Officers were called to Post Road near Burgess Road at approximately 10:45 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28. Upon arrival at the scene, police said that the units called found a 1998 Nissan parked in the middle of the driveway at the high school, facing the wrong direction. Prior to stopping at the high school, officers said that the Nissan was spotted driving erratical…

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by Zak Failla