A mega heist: Deep network detects whopping 301 new planets beyond our solar system
India TodayScientists have for the first time discovered a whopping 301 planets orbiting their stars outside of our solar system. The discovery was made possible by a new deep neural network called ExoMiner, a machine learning system that uses Nasa’s Pleiades supercomputer, and can distinguish real exoplanets from different types of imposters, or "false positives." The discovery has been detailed in a paper accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, which confirms 301 new worlds discovered by ExoMiner using data from the remaining set of possible planets or candidates in the Kepler Archive. Scientists are hopeful that these 301 new discoveries will help us better understand planets and solar systems beyond our own, and what makes ours so unique. Now that we've trained ExoMiner using Kepler data, with a little fine-tuning, we can transfer that learning to other missions, including TESS, which we're currently working on," said Hamed Valizadegan, ExoMiner project lead.
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