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High Schoolers Discover Four Alien Worlds

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Clara Sousa-Silva

SRMP Director

Clara Sousa-Silva serves as director of the Student Research Mentoring Program at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. She is a quantum astrochemist and her research focuses on exoplanet spectroscopy and its applications to astrobiology.

High Schoolers Discover Four Alien Worlds - 16-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright have co-authored a peer-reviewed paper in the Astronomical Journal describing the discovery of four new exoplanets about 200-light-years away from Earth. The high schoolers participated in the research through the Student Research Mentoring Program (SRMP) at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Directed by astrochemist Clara Sousa-Silva, the SRMP connects local high schoolers who are interested in research with real-world scientists at Harvard and MIT.

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