NASA Announces Discovery of New Planet System Similar to Ours

No dwarf planets allowed.

By Hope Corrigan

NASA and Google have announced the discovery of new planets, one of which makes for the discovery of the first other solar system to have at least eight planets, like our own.

After teasing the announcement earlier this month, the companies revealed Google's artificial intelligence software discovered an additional planet to the already known Kepler-90 star system. The software used machine learning to go through old data collected by NASA's Kepler telescope and find the new planet, which has been named Kepler-90i.

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According to Business Insider, Kepler-90i appears to be a small, uninhabitable, hot, rocky planet, positioned third from the sun, which was originally missed by astronomers due to having a weak signal.

Another planet was also found. Named Kepler-80g, it holds similarities to the Trappist-1 system, which contains potentially habitable planets.

As reported by The Telegraph, Google's neural network was able to correctly identify planets and false positives 96 percent of the time. Google will release all of the code so others can help hunt down more exoplanets.

Hope Corrigan is an Earth-based freelancer looking to the stars. You can follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Twitch.

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