Claude Science helps astrophysicist produce first complete ultraviolet sky map

Anthropic said in a post on its science blog that astrophysicist Brice Ménard used Claude Science to create what it described as the first complete ultraviolet map of the sky. According to the company, astronomers had already assembled full-sky maps across wavelengths ranging from radio to gamma rays, but large portions of the sky had never been observed in ultraviolet. Ménard directed Claude to locate existing datasets, combine them, and use statistical inference to fill in the missing areas. Anthropic said the task would have taken weeks if done by humans alone, but was completed in a matter of days with Claude, while Ménard was able to work on other projects at the same time. The resulting map, Anthropic said, serves as a useful teaching tool and offers an example of how AI can make lower-priority but time-intensive scientific work practical.