Artificial Intelligence Grants Insight Into Galactic Evolution

In the past few years, the field of artificial intelligence has exploded with huge leaps and bounds of progress. Scientists have now found a way to take an intelligent AI and use it to analyze images of distant galaxies – revealing key information about galactic evolution. When we learn more about the distant galaxies around us, we learn more about our own Galaxy and how and why it works the way it does. By taking a deep learning algorithm and applying it to the study of other galaxies, we may finally have the tools we need to truly understand galactic evolution. The main way in which this new ability to study galactic evolution is useful is due to the fact that the majority of the galaxies around us formed over billions of years, with our telescopes only capable of giving us a small snapshot of the history of the systems.