Did Claude Help an Amateur Astronomer Discover a New Planet?
Billions of exoplanets are believed to be out there awaiting discovery. AI—with its ability to sift through mountains of data—could speed that process along.
Via Gizmodo
Last month, Pavel Rabtsevich—a 28-year-old product manager living in Spain—was hunting for planets. He didn’t have any formal training in astronomy or even a telescope. What he did have was an internet connection and subscriptions to multiple AI tools.
He’d been combing through public astronomical data captured by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a space telescope operated by MIT astronomers and launched by NASA in 2018. As its name suggests, TESS’ main purpose is to help astronomers find exoplanets…
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