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Grad student discovers planet orbiting around nearby star, astronomers say

(CHAPEL HILL, N.C.) -- Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space when she made a remarkable discovery.Barber used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to observe the brightness of ...