NASA discovered Largest Planet in the solar system using Google’s AI!

NASA has discovered a planet which could be the largest planet in the solar system. It is considered to be the eighth planet in the family of solar system. The research in space is exponentially growing with the development of the technologies. Likewise, NASA with the help of Google’s Artificial Intelligence made the discovery of the planet. 

AI found the planet by scouring the weak signals in data captured by Kepler telescope. The newly found planet is said to be located in the solar system around Kepler-90, a star which is about 2500 light years away from the earth that was previously discovered in 2014.

Since 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has been searching for the planets outside the solar system (exoplanets). The scientists took the strongest signals first to go through the datas that has been collected by the Kepler since its launch. These collection of datas make scientists to understand or to find the planets around the stars that make up our galaxy.

Artificial Intelligence is now became a most prominent tool in the field of astronomy in recent times. The scientists now are increasingly turning to machine learning, to help sort through typically lower priority missing data.

The planet is named as Kepler-90i. Kepler-90 is about 20 percent bigger and 5 percent warmer than the sun. The orbits are so comparatively small that seven of Kepler-90’s eight planets would fit in between the Earth and the Sun.

The discovery of Kepler-90i, came after NASA let Google train its machine learning algorithms on 15,000 signals from potential planets in the Kepler database. The scientists worked on about 670 stars as they are considered to be the most likely hiding places.

According to Chris Shallue, a senior Google AI software engineer who worked on the project said the inclusion of machine learning in this process shouldn’t scare humans whose livelihood revolves around discovering and studying exoplanets.

“What we’ve developed here is a tool to help astronomers have more impact. It’s a way to increase the productivity of astronomers. It certainly won’t replace them at all.”

“This is really exciting discovery and a successful proof of concept in using neural networks to find planets even in challenging situations where signals are very weak.

“We plan to search all 150,000 stars, we hope using our technique we will be able to find lots of planets including planets like Earth.” 

The discovery is important because it takes the number of planets in the star system up to eight, the same as our own Solar System. It is the first time that any system has been found to have as many planets ours.

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