🌏 AI is Looking for a "Second Earth"

Today, astrophysicists know about 5,700 exoplanets — planets outside our solar system. Among them may be celestial bodies similar to Earth, with an atmosphere and even life. Artificial intelligence is helping to search for and study these distant worlds.

Astrophysicists from the Origins cluster have applied AI algorithms to better understand exoplanets. Using models trained on the laws of physics, they are able to solve complex equations and make predictions based on theoretical calculations and physical modeling.

🪐 Discovery

The algorithms have learned to analyze and simulate how the light spectrum changes as exoplanets pass in front of their star. The results are many times more accurate than before, with the AI being wrong only less than 1% of the time. This data will help determine the chemical composition, temperature, and the structure of clouds in the exoplanets’ atmospheres. This way, scientists will be able to find out whether the planet might have water, nitrogen, and other elements essential for life.

🪐 How it is helpful

💫 AI algorithms can help find new exoplanets and categorize them based on various parameters such as size, mass, and distance from their star.

💫 Based on the modeled data about the atmospheres’ composition, AI algorithms can search for signs of life and predict scenarios for the origin and development of planetary systems.

💫 AI can help process observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful open-space telescope in operation, faster and more accurately.

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