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Just use dinosaurs...

Algorithm or technique? The press release is quite vague (I did not check through the links). Are we talking laser, infrared, visible spectrum, or fruity pebbles algos? What if a pure black object is occluding known stars? What if there is some ice on the same black object? Is the algo meant to be run directly on a satellite (Hubble, Kepler, etc.) or from a terrestrial observatory?

Break it into knowns, then unknowns.

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