Observed arrival · 2026-10-09
Public Frontier: An open lab for finding worlds
A public research workspace for exploring NASA TESS data, sharing notebooks and checking searches for planets around other stars.
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- People exploring exoplanets with public TESS data
- Worth noticing
- Published work stays in its author’s ATProto repository; the site reads and displays it.
Field notes
The starting exercise is to recover a known planet from a TESS light curve, with a linked notebook the homepage says runs in a few minutes. A project keeps its notebooks, figures and data in its creator’s own ATProto repository; Public Frontier says it reads and displays that work. The page also lists a JSON API and a route for AI agents, though it does not describe the agents’ role in the analysis.
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●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
◉HumanPersonal, local, civic, or handmade
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