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I suggested that my autonomous Claude agents try astronomy on my PC for fun. They found 104 new eclipsing binary stars and came up with a new method for finding them, on their own

https://preview.redd.it/nbmqizrasevh1.png?width=2400&format=png&auto=webp&s=056954359a72f744f6af074fbe49cd25dd563766 (For most of these systems, they were recorded as 2 stars, but no one knew that we could see them overlap; you can determine a lot more info about the individual stars if they eclips…

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  1. 2026-10-14 10:20 · r/singularity
    I suggested that my autonomous Claude agents try astronomy on my PC for fun. They found 104 new eclipsing binary stars and came up with a new method for finding them, on their own

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