Ancient Kraken hiding inside the Milky Way gets revealed by artificial intelligence

The Milky Way has had a long and eventful life. Throughout its history, our galaxy has collided and merged with multiple other galaxies, events that are hard to disentangle and make sense of. With the aid of Artificial Intelligence, a team of astronomers took on this painstaking task, piecing together the most complex history of our galaxy -- and the main attraction is something called The Kraken. Just like geologists look for fossils to see how ancient life might have looked like, astronomers also look for fossils of their own -- but instead of trilobites or dinosaurs, astronomers are preoccupied with very old cosmic structures called globular clusters. Globular clusters are spherical-shaped, densely-packed collections of ancient stars.