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Space & Cosmos
High school students use AI to reveal 1.5 million unknown objects in the universe
Caltech presidents Thomas F. Rosenbaum and Matteo Paz. Credit: California Institute of Technology Through his research at Caltech, local high school students revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, expanding the possibilities of the NASA mission and publishing a single authored paper. Matteo (Matthew) Paz’s article published in The Astronomical Journal describes the new AI algorithms that led to…
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Space & Cosmos
Here’s how interstellar objects and rogue planets get trapped in our solar system
Illustration of an interstellar object approaching the solar system. Credit: Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. DaSilva When ‘Oumuamua crossed the solar system in 2017, it was the first confirmed interstellar object (ISO). And in 2019, Comet 2l/Borisov did the same thing. These are the only ISOs confirmed to visit our solar system. There have been many more ISOs in our solar system’s long…
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