Claude Science helps complete the first full-sky ultraviolet map
jiqizhixin · x · 2026-10-17
Johns Hopkins astrophysicist and Anthropic researcher Brice Ménard partnered with Claude Science to produce the first complete ultraviolet all-sky map, filling in the one-third of the sky never observed in UV by 50 years of space telescopes. Claude ran hours of computation autonomously over several days while Ménard planned next steps and worked on other projects. The map combines far-UV (154 nm) and near-UV (232 nm) data, revealing glowing dust clouds around young stars and giant dust rings and loops outlining supernova remnants.
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