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Artificial intelligence, NASA data used to discover eighth planet circling distant star

17 December 2017 Astronomy Now

Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light-years from Earth. The planet was discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.

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  • Ingenuity Mars ‘copter makes historic first flight on red planet

    19 April 2021
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    11 April 2021
  • Astronomers spot merging galaxies hosting dual quasars

    7 April 2021
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