Natasha Batalha, who collaborated with her daughter Natalie Batalha on the observations of WASP-39a, a hot exoplanet with aSaturn-like mass, said she wanted to work for an organisation that made space programs. But she got an internship studying the atmosphere of Gliese 1214b, an exoplanet orbiting a star 48 light years (14.7 parsecs) from Earth.