An AI combed through 35 years of Hubble images and discovered more than 800 strange objects that had never been documented before.

An AI trawled through 35 years of Hubble images and found more than 800 strange objects that had never been documented before, showing that one of astronomy’s most famous archives is still hiding discoveries in plain sight

Two researchers from the European Space Agency ran an AI tool on nearly 100 million cropped images from the Hubble Space Telescope archive and returned a short list of unusual objects, more than 800 of which had not been described in the scientific literature. The tool, called AnomalyMatch, was developed by David O’Ryan and Pablo …

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