On December 14th 2017, NASA announced that its Kepler Space telescope had discover another solar system that has eight planets just our own. Using Google's Artificial Intelligence (AI), scientists were able to search though "weak" data to find an eight planet orbiting a star that was previously discovered in 2014. Kepler-90 as it is called, is an earth like star that is 2,545 light years from Earth and until now was believed to have only seven planets in its system.
The newly discovered planet is being called Kepler-90i. It is a hot, rocky planet that orbits its star every 14.4 days. The planet was discovered by Andrew Vanderburg of the University of Texas at Austin with the help of Google Machine Learning researcher, Christopher Shallue. The discovery was made by the Machine Learning technology, which mimics a neural network, as in the human brain. It was able to learn to recognize weak transits while it sifted though previously search data.
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