Astronomers used AI to find 1,400 ‘anomalous objects’ from Hubble archives

Six anomalies recovered successful Hubble’s archives.

A brace of astronomers astatine the European Space Agency (ESA) discovered much than 800 antecedently undocumented "astrophysical anomalies" hiding successful Hubble's archives. To bash so, researchers David O'Ryan and Pablo Gómez trained an AI exemplary to comb done Hubble's 35-year dataset, hunting for unusual objects and flagging them for manual review. It's "a treasure trove of information successful which astrophysical anomalies mightiness beryllium found," O'Ryan said successful a statement.

Studying abstraction is hard. There's tons of it, it's noisy, and the flood of information generated by tools similar the Hubble Space Telescope tin overwhelm adjacent ample probe teams. And sometimes abstraction is weird. …

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