NASA used Google’s artificial intelligence technology to discover two exoplanets from different solar systems

Briefing

NASA used Google’s artificial intelligence technology to discover two exoplanets from different solar systems

December 21, 2017

Briefing

  • New Exoplanets Discovery – Google’s artificial neural network helped NASA discover two exoplanets, Kepler-90i and Kepler-80g, from two different solar systems
  • Kepler-90i – Orbits star Kepler-90, which is 2,545 light years away from Earth, every 14.4 days and is inhabitable as surface temperatures average 800 degrees Fahrenheit, same with Mercury
  • Kepler-80g – Sixth planet discovered orbiting star Kepler-80 and has similar size as Earth
  • Machine Learning Capability – Trained neural network to identify exoplanets from 15,000 existing signals vetted by NASA from Kepler exoplanet catalogue, achieving 96% accuracy
  • Next Step – Apply neural network to Kepler’s full set of more than 150,000 stars in search for more exoplanets

Accelerator

Sector

Government (excluding military), Information Technology

Organization

Google Inc., NASA

Source

Original Publication Date

December 15, 2017

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