The Verge Science
28 January 2026
Astronomers used AI to find 1,400 ‘anomalous objects’ from Hubble archives
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A pair of astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) discovered more than 800 previously undocumented "astrophysical anomalies" hiding in Hubble's archives. To do so, researchers David O'Ryan and Pablo Gómez trained an AI model to comb through Hubble's 35-year dataset, hunting for strange objects and flagging them for manual review. It's "a treasure trove […]
Key Takeaways
- • Astronomers used AI to find 1,400 ‘anomalous objects’ from Hubble archives.
