TESS
A space telescope launched by NASA dedicated to searching for exoplanets across the full sky. It monitors stellar brightness variations using the transit method, and all resulting light curve data are publicly available.
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Raw data from the Kepler and TESS missions are both fully publicly available and can be freely accessed through astronomical data archive platforms such as MAST.
The star is approximately 116 light-years from Earth and exhibits a brightness dip of about 0.05% every 3.18 days, lasting approximately two hours.
The same transit signal appears consistently across three independent TESS datasets from three different time periods.
A Reddit user used Claude Code to assist in analyzing NASA TESS space telescope data and discovered a previously unrecorded exoplanet candidate.
The author searched 36 star catalogs and literature sources as well as 340,505 TESS automated planet search alerts, confirming that neither signal had been previously reported.
TESS will re-observe the sky region in question between approximately October 31 and November 26, and the author's observation proposal has been approved under Program #100.
TESS is a full-sky survey telescope launched by NASA in 2018, with the transit method as its core detection principle.
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Raw data from the Kepler and TESS missions are both fully publicly available and can be freely accessed through astronomical data archive platforms such as MAST.
50%UnverifiedThe star is approximately 116 light-years from Earth and exhibits a brightness dip of about 0.05% every 3.18 days, lasting approximately two hours.
50%UnverifiedThe same transit signal appears consistently across three independent TESS datasets from three different time periods.
50%UnverifiedThe author searched 36 star catalogs and literature sources as well as 340,505 TESS automated planet search alerts, confirming that neither signal had been previously reported.
50%UnverifiedTESS is a full-sky survey telescope launched by NASA in 2018, with the transit method as its core detection principle.
50%UnverifiedTESS will re-observe the sky region in question between approximately October 31 and November 26, and the author's observation proposal has been approved under Program #100.
50%UnverifiedA Reddit user used Claude Code to assist in analyzing NASA TESS space telescope data and discovered a previously unrecorded exoplanet candidate.
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