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Amateur astronomer harnesses AI to find a possible hidden exoplanet

Scientific American · October 14, 2026 at 7:00 AM

Evidence for the 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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Amateur astronomer harnesses AI to find a possible hidden exoplanet

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