# 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 NA

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| Published | 11 October 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/amateur-uses-claude-code-codex-and-nasa-data-to-flag-a-possible-exoplanet-and-tess-will-test-it-in-november/