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4/4/2016 9:36:27 PM
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I'm just a simple high school astronomer and I don't think I'll ever have an actual career in astronomy (I'm studying to become an aerospace engineer) but I've got a question; how much would you get paid or what would you receive if you were to discover a planet or other celestial body of importance? It's a dumb question but after watching a particular episode of psych recently I've been curious.
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Astronomers work for research institutes at university's or private labs. Their pay is based off of grant money they receive from the government or other funding party. Albeit needing a PhD to do most professional work, astronomers and astrophysicists can make anywhere from 65k to like 250k+ depending on where you end up and what you do. So, basically, discovering a planet doesn't really get you paid. The people who use the Kepler telescope are being paid through grant money, and while their discoveries do not get them paid personally, if a project is consistently finding new things, then it can be expected that grant money will keep flowing in. Winning a Nobel will make you a millionaire though.
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I doubt people get paid for discovering planets. You'd possibly get a Nobel prize though if your discovery was important enough, which may lead you to get a research scholarship with some institute or university somewhere.
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Makes sense. Must be pretty boring though considering you've got to spend months fixed on one little part of space.
