Richard J. Terrile

Richard John Terrile (born March 22, 1951, in New York) is a Voyager scientist who discovered several moons^[1] of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. He works for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

In 1984, together with Bradford A. Smith, Terrile became the first to photograph a protoplanetary disc around Beta Pictoris using a coronagraph.^[2]

Terrile is a supporter of the simulation hypothesis, the idea that our reality is a computer-generated virtual reality created by unknown programmers.^[3][4]