Astronomers used AI to find 1,400 ‘anomalous objects’ from Hubble archives
Six anomalies found in Hubble's archives.A pair of astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) discovered more than 800 previously undocumented "astrophysical anomalies" hiding in Hubble's archives. To do so, researchers David O'Ryan and Pablo Gomez trained an AI model to comb through Hubble's 35-year dataset, hunting for strange objects and flagging them for manual review. It's "a treasure trove of data in which astrophysical anomalies might be found," O'Ryan said in a statement.
Studying space is hard. There's lots of it, it's noisy, and the flood of data generated by tools like the Hubble Space Telescope can overwhelm even large research teams. And sometimes space is weird. ...