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Lifelong Westchester Resident Robert Leo Stern, 92, Was Sailor, Singer, Wine Connoisseur Lifelong Westchester Resident Robert Leo Stern, 92, Was Sailor, Singer, Wine Connoisseur
Lifelong Westchester Resident Robert Leo Stern, 92, Was Sailor, Singer, Wine Connoisseur Robert Leo Stern died peacefully in his sleep on April 14 at home in Rye after a long illness. He was 92 years old and a lifelong resident of Westchester County.  Bob was born Aug. 11, 1927, son of Leo and Marjorie Stern of New Rochelle. He was an Eagle Scout and valedictorian of the New Rochelle High School class of 1944, then graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton (BSE '48) and the Wharton School (MBA '51). He served briefly in the Navy during WWII. Bob worked in the financial industry for many years, including as a partner at Newburger, Loeb and Co. before changing careers to share h…

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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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