🪐 An 18-Year-Old Teen Discovers 1.5 Million Space Objects

Californian 18-year-old Matteo Paz identified 1.5 million new space objects with AI. He won $250,000 in the Regeneron Science Talent Search for his efforts.

Paz's algorithm analyzes data from NASA's NEOWISE mission. The VarWISE catalog, created by Paz's AI algorithm, contains 1.9 million variable objects, of which 1.5 million were previously unknown to science. This groundbreaking dataset offers valuable insights into phenomena such as the expansion rate of the universe and the formation of distant star systems.

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