This is one of the youngest stars ever identified with a planetary companion.

With our method, over the next 10 years it could increase the number of new planets discovered to 10,000 or more.

I'm one of the youngest ones,

We still have one of the youngest teams in America.

My youngest one, who is 9, asked why is it her daddy that is going,

Some of the stars in this Milky Way companion have been seen with telescopes for centuries. But because the galaxy is so close, its stars are spread over a huge swath of the sky, and they always used to be lost in the sea of more numerous Milky Way stars. This galaxy is so big, we couldn't see it before.