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Finding a possible new planet with Claude Code
An amateur used Claude Code to search public telescope data and flagged a candidate planet nobody had catalogued.
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A Reddit user used Claude Code to search public telescope data and flagged what they believe is a planet no one had catalogued. The Hacker News link drew 302 points. Commenters asked why automated searches hadn't already found it, and pointed out that NASA's TESS and ESA's CHEOPS missions run citizen-science projects on Zooniverse for exactly this kind of hunt, where finds can be checked by others.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Hacker News: I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it
- Hacker News discussion (302 points)HN submitter: pyduanPosted
Hacker News discussion (302 points), linking the original Reddit post.