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A possible planet found in TESS data with Claude Code
Claude Code helped search NASA TESS data and found a repeating dip in one star that may be a small planet, still only a candidate.
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- Reddit poster This_Cell_1829 Source ↗
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Going through NASA TESS data with Claude Code, the poster noticed a star about 116 light-years away that dims by about 0.05% every 3.18 days for roughly two hours. The same dip appears in separate observations from 2020 and 2018, and if it is a planet it would be about 1.4 times Earth's size.
Claude downloaded and parsed the data, wrote the search code, fitted transits and checked for false positives, across 74 analyses and over 1,000 scripts, with fresh agent sessions and Codex reviewing. The poster stresses it is a candidate, not a confirmed planet.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it.Reddit poster: This_Cell_1829Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
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