NASA and Google have announced the discovery of new planets, one of which makes for the discovery of the first other solar system to have at least eight planets, like our own.
After teasing the announcement earlier this month, the companies revealed Google's artificial intelligence software discovered an additional planet to the already known Kepler-90 star system. The software used machine learning to go through old data collected by NASA's Kepler telescope and find the new planet, which has been named Kepler-90i.
According to Business Insider, Kepler-90i appears to be a small, uninhabitable, hot, rocky planet, positioned third from the sun, which was originally missed by astronomers due to having a weak signal.
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After teasing the announcement earlier this month, the companies revealed Google's artificial intelligence software discovered an additional planet to the already known Kepler-90 star system. The software used machine learning to go through old data collected by NASA's Kepler telescope and find the new planet, which has been named Kepler-90i.
According to Business Insider, Kepler-90i appears to be a small, uninhabitable, hot, rocky planet, positioned third from the sun, which was originally missed by astronomers due to having a weak signal.
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