AI Finds Solar System With 8 Planets

    • sudhanshu.rout@timesgroup.com
    • Publish Date: Dec 18 2017 1:36PM
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    • Updated Date: Dec 21 2017 1:11PM
AI Finds Solar System With 8 Planets

A solar system with as many planets as our own has been discovered with the help of NASA’s Kepler space telescope and Artificial Intelligence (AI). “Our solar system is now tied for the most number of planets around a single star,” NASA said in a statement. However, none of the planets are expected to be hospitable to life. The eight-planet system — the largest known outside ours — orbits a star called Kepler 90 some 2,545 light years away. The Kepler-90 star system is like a mini version of our solar system,” said Andrew Vanderburg, astronomer, University of Texas, Austin.

The new planet

  • The newly identified planet, Kepler-90i, is a rocky planet like Earth, but orbits its star once every 14.4 days – a full year at the new planet is the same as two weeks on Earth.
  • “Kepler-90i is not a place I’d like to go visit, though,” said Vanderburg. “Its surface is possibly far too hot.” NASA calculated its average temperature at about 800 degrees Fahrenheit (426 Celsius) — as hot as Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. Scientists found it by using machine learning from Google. The process involved teaching a computer to scan a trove of 35,000 possible planetary signals.

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