Amateur astronomer harnesses AI to find a possible hidden exoplanet
Evidence for this possible super-Earth has been lurking for years in NASA data. Pavel Rabtsevich found it—with a little help from AI
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An amateur astronomer harnessed artificial intelligence agents to find a previously undiscovered exoplanet lurking in publicly available data.
Pavel Rabtsevich, a Spain-based product manager and a space science hobbyist, was poring over data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an exoplanet-hunting space telescope, when he noticed something odd. TESS looks for the subtle dimming caused by planets transiting, or passing in front of, their stars. Of the more than 126,000 target stars that Rabtsevich was examining with a custom-built AI algorithm, his machine-learning…
