FANS of the late Glasgow dance music star Sophie have called on Nasa to name a planet after the musician.
They died in Athens, Greece on Saturday, January 30 after a tragic fall from a wall, from which they were reportedly trying to view the full moon.
An icon to the transgender community, they colour-coded their 2018 album Oil of Every Pearl’s UnInsides in line with the community's adopted colours.
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And the planet fans want to name in honour of the star bears the same colour scheme.
The petition has already garnered more than 54,000 signatures, with a target of 75,000.
Discovered by Wolf Cukier, a high school pupil who interned at the US space agency, the planet sits in the TOI 1338 binary star system in the constellation Pictor, about 1,320 light-years from Earth.
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