Researchers have taught an artificial intelligence program used to recognize faces on Facebook to identify galaxies in deep space.
The result is an AI bot named ClaRAN that scans images taken by radio telescopes.
Its job is to spot radio galaxies – galaxies that emit powerful radio jets from supermassive black holes at their centers.
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This is the binary code to the “Hello, World!” program, a simple computer program used in beginner classes to introduce basic programming syntax. The program’s sole function is to print “Hello, World!” on screen: an uplifting, symbolic gesture in which the computer (an emerging technology when the program was first created) greets the world full of hope, and of wonder.
A telephoto view of the Orion nebula and surrounding region over a Saskatchewan tree [OC]
In 1995, NASA astronomer Bob Williams wanted to point the Hubble telescope at the darkest part of the sky for 100 hours. Critics said it was a waste of valuable time, and he’d have to resign if it came up blank. Instead it revealed over 3,000 galaxies, in an area 1/30th as wide as a full moon.
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