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8-years-old girl NICOLINHA from Brazil is officially the world's youngest Astronomer.

At just 8 years of age, the Brazilian girl is known as the world's youngest astronomer, looking of asteroids as part of a NASA-affiliated program, attending international seminars and meeting with her the country's top space and science figures.

Oliveira's  room is filled with posters and solar system, star wars figures and miniature rockets. Nicolinha, as she is affectionately known, works on her computer studying images of the sky on 2 two large screens.

With pride, Nicolinha told AFP she has already found 18 asteroids.

If her finding are certified, which may take several years, Oliveira will become the youngest person in the world to officially e discover and asteroid, breaking the record of 18-years-old Italian Luigi sannino.

She immediately sports points in the images that look like asteroids and often advisors her classmates when they a r not sure they have really e found any.  Said Heliomarzio Rodrigues Moreira, oliveira's astronomy teacher private school in the city of Fortaleza in north-eastern Brazil, which sea is attending thanks to escholarship.

The most important thing is that she shares her knowledge with other children, she contributes to the dissemination of science.

Passion for astronomy 

Nicolinha received a scholarship to to attend the prestigious school, her father, a computer scientist, was allowed to keep his job and Telework work.

Her parents Said.....

"We understood that his passion to astronomy was serious when she asked us for a telescope as a birthday gift when she turned four. I didn't even really know that a telescope was.

On her YouTube channel, Nicolinha has interviewed influential figures like the who to part in the discovery of a supernova called SN 1997D.

Last year, Oliveira travelled to Brasilia to meet with the minister of science as well as whitley astronaut Marcos pontes, the only Brazilian to to date to have been to space.

Nicolinha's ambition is want to to become an aerospace engineer.

                      NICOLINHA SAID 

"I want to build rockets. I would love to go to the Kennedy Space Center at NASA in Florida to see their rockets", I would also like all children in Brazil to have access to science".           









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