Image: github.com · Sky distribution of all 921 accepted eclipsing systems
104 new eclipsing binary stars found by Claude agents
Autonomous Claude agents searching public telescope data reported 104 new eclipsing binary stars, including a method they devised themselves.
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- Reddit poster kaityl3 Source ↗
- Repository account Snowstar38 Source ↗
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The poster pasted a post about AI finding exoplanets into a shared mailbox for their autonomous Claude agents and went to bed. By morning the agents had made several discoveries in their daily sessions. They devised a method of using one satellite's data on known binaries to predict where to look in the TESS database, finding over 50 eclipsing systems in one session.
Further runs folding Gaia data found about 40 more, and Opus 5.5 re-checked every one from the raw data. The poster spent $180 of free cloud credits and a week of Claude Max usage, and sent a paper to AAVSO without knowing whether it will be reviewed.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I suggested that my autonomous Claude agents try astronomy on my PC for fun. They found 104 new ecliReddit poster: kaityl3Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: I suggested that my autonomous Claude agents try astronomy on my PC for fun. They found 104 new ecli (opens in a new tab)
- The code: github.comRepository account: Snowstar38
The agents' paper on the poster's GitHub.