# Claude Science agents assemble a full-sky ultraviolet map, with a third of it predicted, not observed

A Johns Hopkins astrophysicist who also works at Anthropic says agents merged six datasets in days and that blind tests put the predicted regions within about 10 percent of real measurements.

- Published: 2026-10-12T06:16:38.065Z
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Brice Ménard, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University who also works as a researcher at Anthropic, used Claude Science to build what Anthropic calls the first complete map of the sky in far and near ultraviolet light. Claude Science i…

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