Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Friday January 10th, 2020 and we begin with a teenager turning heads at NASA.

High school senior Wolf Kukier was just three days into his internship with the space agency

when he discovered a brand new planet, nearly seven times the size of Earth

in a constellation 1300 light years away.

It's a big find big enough for NASA to make an announcement about it.

Even so, Wolf doesn't get to name it.

New planets discovered by the satellite he used Even so Wolf doesn't get to name it.

New planets discovered by the satellite he used are only given identification numbers,

so his will be known as TOI 1338B.

A bummer, he says, because he and his brother believe Wolf Topia would have made

a much better choice.

Ticks don't give a lick whether you're a Grammy winner or not.

Singer Justin Bieber announced this week that he's battling Lyme disease,

an illness that comes from the bacteria of the dreaded deer variety.

Those ticks are tiny about the size of a pinhead,

but to humans their bite can be devastating.

Symptoms include fever, chills, body aches,

swollen lymph nodes, neck stiffness, shortness of breath, headache, fatigue,

and a rash.

A fellow pop star knows just what he's going through.

Avril Levine battled Lyme Disease a few years ago and has reached out to Justin with support.

In case you didn't know, Lyme disease is spelled with a Y, L Y M E, and gets its name from the place

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