Artificial Intelligence and NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star

Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence and NASA Data Used to Dis­cov­er Eighth Plan­et Cir­cling Dis­tant Star



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Our solar sys­tem now is tied for most num­ber of plan­ets around a sin­gle star, with the recent dis­cov­ery of an eighth plan­et cir­cling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth. The plan­et was dis­cov­ered in data from NASA’s Kepler space tele­scope. More info: 

The new­ly-dis­cov­ered Kepler-90i — a siz­zling hot, rocky plan­et that orbits its star once every 14.4 days — was found by researchers from Google and The Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Austin using machine learn­ing. Machine learn­ing is an approach to arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence in which com­put­ers “learn.” In this case, com­put­ers learned to iden­ti­fy plan­ets by find­ing in Kepler data instances where the tele­scope record­ed sig­nals from plan­ets beyond our solar sys­tem, known as exoplanets.

Video cred­it: NASA/Ames Research Center

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