NASA has
found an entire solar system with as many planets as our own. The discovery of
two new planets around the Kepler-90 star, which looks like our own sun, means
that distant solar system has just as many planets as our own.
The star and
its solar system were already known. But the breakthrough came when astronomers
found the two new worlds, which was done using Google's artificial intelligence
technology.
That
suggests that there might be whole worlds and solar systems hiding within the
data we've already collected, but which we hadn't been able to notice because
there is simply so many signals to pick through.
“Just as we
expected, there are exciting discoveries lurking in our archived Kepler data,
waiting for the right tool or technology to unearth them,” said Paul Hertz,
director of NASA’s Astrophysics Division in Washington. “This finding shows
that our data will be a treasure trove available to innovative researchers for
years to come.”
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