Here's how artificial intelligence helping astronomers learn about the universe

To take on the challenges, astronomers are turning to machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to build new tools to rapidly search for the next big breakthroughs. A research by Ashley Spindler from the department of Astrophysics, University of Hertfordshire, has thrown light on this, as reported by news agency PTI. When an exoplanet passes in front of its parent star, it blocks some of the light which the humans can see. By observing many orbits of an exoplanet, astronomers build a picture of the dips in the light, which they can use to identify the planet's properties, such as its mass, size and distance from its star. AI's time-series analysis techniques, which analyse data as a sequential sequence with time have been combined with a type of AI to successfully identify the signals of exoplanets with up to 96 per cent accuracy.