AI confirms 50 new planets from old NASA data, in a groundbreaking first – CNET

An artist’s conception of some of Kepler’s big exoplanet finds.
NASA/W. Stenzel
Our planet-hunting telescopes have gotten so good at their jobs that they’ve located thousands of possible planets outside our solar system. That means scientists have to sift through a whole lot of data to figure out what’s a real planet and what’s a pretender.
A research team led by David Armstrong at the University of Warwick in the UK has worked out how to harness artificial intelligence to handle some of the …

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