Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Breakthrough AI
identifies 50 new planets from old NASA data
Astronomers are finding
new exoplanets nearly every day. The closest star from our Sun is Proxima
Centauri, located 4.2 light-years, or nearly 40 trillion kilometers away. Astronomers
have already found to exoplanets orbiting this neighbor star, so they are the closest
planets from us. To your surprise, they are just two of the 4,200 exoplanets that
have been confirmed as of August. But how are astronomers identifying
extrasolar planets that don’t shine themselves in the faraway universe?
Basically, they observe
stars and look for dips in light, which are presumably caused by passing
planets of the solar system. Sounds like a heavily attention-required work, doesn’t
it? But now, machine-learning can train artificial intelligence to validate unidentified
exoplanet candidates only in seconds. In fact, some researchers identified 50
new exoplanets with the help of AI algorithms from already-scrutinized NASA
data. They are expecting that machine learning will further improve the algorithm
and find more extrasolar planets, potentially habitable ones that our descendants
of future generations might someday pay a visit.
Enjoy reading the
article and learn about the quest for habitable planets of other stars.
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