A habitable-zone exoplanet visualiser built with Claude
A 2D and 3D visualiser of habitable-zone exoplanets near Earth, with SQL queries against NASA's exoplanet archive.
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An author researching habitable zone planets for a book on radio astronomy used claude.ai to write the HTML and JavaScript for a visualiser of nearby habitable-zone exoplanets, with very explicit prompts. The data comes from NASA's Exoplanet Archive TAP interface, and Claude helped modify URL-encoded SQL queries directly.
The poster tested often because Claude makes mistakes. Claude used different rendering approaches in different chats, and kept the galactic plane at the wrong angle for a while, insisting it was correct. It took several rebuilds, and the poster is still not certain the angle is right.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Habitable Zone Exoplanet Visualizer (and book website)
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
The poster has deleted it, but the original is still readable (it can take a few seconds to load): archived copy of Reddit: Habitable Zone Exoplanet Visualizer (and book website) (opens in a new tab)