High school student's AI identifies 1.5 million new celestial objects from NASA telescope data
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Summary
A high school student, Matteo Paz, developed an AI system during a summer program at Caltech's Planet Finder Academy that analyzed nearly 200 billion data points from NASA's NEOWISE telescope. His AI uncovered approximately 1.5 million previously undetected celestial objects, demonstrating how young researchers can make significant contributions to astronomy using machine learning techniques on massive datasets.
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· 3 pulledA young mind builds an AI breakthrough
The dataset contained nearly 200 billion rows of measurements, capturing countless celestial objects
Under the mentorship of Caltech scientist Davy Kirkpatrick at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), Paz examined a massive archive from NASA's NEOWISE telescope
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