Apparently @claudeai Found a planet --- Is this another way that @NASAScience_ can contribute to the #AI / #SI thing @NASAAdmin @mkratsios47 @skupor @Jay_Clayton_ -- finding planets hiding in #NASA data? Post by ipaulsmith aka u/This_Cell_1829 on r/ClaudeAI on Reddit: "I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it. I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it. Last month I was going through data from NASA's TESS telescope with Claude Code when one star started looking weird. ... It's about 116 light-years away, and every 3.18 days it gets about 0.05% dimmer for roughly two hours." "I first saw it in data from late 2025. So I went backwards. The same dip is there in completely separate TESS observations from 2020. Then 2018. If it's a planet, it's about 1.4× the size of Earth. To be clear: this is still a planet candidate, not a confirmed planet." "I used Claude Code with Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 for most of the actual work: downloading and parsing the TESS data, writing the search code, fitting the transits, checking nearby stars, looking for secondary eclipses and other false positives, generating plots, and rerunning things when a test failed." -- more reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/commen… #astronomy #exoplanet #astrobiology