11 new space anomalies discovered using Artificial Intelligence

The team examined digital images of the Northern sky obtained using a k-D tree in 2018 to detect space anomalies through the "nearest neighbour" method. The study is published in New Astronomy. Astronomical discoveries have increased drastically in recent years due to large-scale astronomical surveys. The Zwicky Transient Facility, for example, employs a wide-field view camera to survey the Northern sky, generating 1.4 TB of data each night of observation with its catalogue containing billions of objects. However, processing such colossal quantities of data manually is extremely expensive and time-consuming.