Published 20:13 IST, January 19th 2021

'The BTS planet': NASA discovers new planet, netizens say K-pop stars found it first

After a 17-year-old high school student interning at the NASA discovered a brand new planet named TOI 1338 b, internet users have begun relating it to BTS.

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After a 17-year-old high school student interning at National Aeronautics and ministration (NASA) discovered a brand new planet named TOI 1338 b, internet users have begun relating celestial body with K-pop stars and Ariana Grande among or celebrities with ‘same aestics’. planet was discovered back in 2019. w a Twitter user with name @paintwater_boba shared three ims of planet on January 17 and netizens ‘can’t keep calm’. 

planet, according to NASA is 1,300 light-years away and appears to be painted with watercolours with subtle shes of purple, pink among ors. user’s tweet t only went viral on microblogging platform but netizens called it ‘ BTS planet’ or ‘This is where Ariana came from’. tweet has alrey garnered over 1.2 million likes with thousands of tweets and retweets. Many netizens said that y are ‘packing bags’ and leaving Earth, green planet for ‘pink one’. Many even shared album ims or or screenshots trying to 'prove' that 'who found planet first'. One of Twitter users said 'it's t a coincidence'. Here are some of reactions:

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'World orbiting two stars'

While explaining planet, NASA said that it is a 'world orbiting two stars' and is TESS’s first circumbinary planet. US ncy said, "TOI 1338 b, as it is w called, is TESS’s first circumbinary planet, a world orbiting two stars". discovery was featured in a panel discussion at 235th American Astromical Society meeting in Holulu

" TOI 1338 system lies 1,300 light-years away in constellation Pictor. two stars orbit each or every 15 days. One is about 10% more massive than our Sun, while or is cooler, dimmer and only one-third Sun’s mass," it ded.

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20:13 IST, January 19th 2021