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Amateur astronomer Pavel Rabtsevich has used AI to identify evidence for a possible super-Earth hidden in NASA data, Scientific American reports.
Why it mattersThe candidate may have been sitting in the archive for years. It is a promising lead, not a confirmed planet, and the available report excerpt does not explain how the AI helped find it. Still, astronomy’s data backlog may have a useful new assistant, and it does not ask for telescope time.
Discuss: Should AI-discovered planets count as meaningful discoveries before independent follow-up confirms them, or is that label too generous?
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