Amateur Uses Claude Code, Codex and NASA Data to Flag a Possible Exoplanet, and TESS Will Test It in November

Every 3.18 days, a star sitting 116 light-years from Earth loses a tiny fraction of its brightness. The person who says he caught that pattern is Pavel Rabtsevich, a 28-year-old product manager based in Spain. He has no astronomy training and owns no telescope. His tools were AI coding agents and NASA data that anyone can download. Within a few weeks, a space telescope will check whether he got it right. That is why the story deserves a closer look.

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