NASA confirms discovery of 301 new exoplanets; none found to be habitable

NASA anunced on Monday to have ded a whopping 301 new planets to its list of validated exoplanets - planets residing outside our solar system. With this confirmation, total tally of validated alien planets orbiting different stars has reached 4,569. According to ncy, discoveries, confirmations and validations were me using a new deep neural network called ExoMiner. This new network uses NASA’s Pleies supercomputer to distinguish real exoplanets from false ones. Deep neural networks are machine learning methods that automatically learn a task when provided with eugh data. 

ExoMiner and its contribution to validation of exoplanets

astromers were able to confirm and validate exoplanets using data from Kepler telescope, which was supplemented with results from Exominer, that helped to identify what is an exoplanet and what is t. Jon Jenkins, an exoplanet scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center said as per NASA-

Unlike or exoplanet-detecting machine learning programs, ExoMiner isn't a black box, re is mystery as to why it decides something is a planet or t. We can easily explain which features in data le ExoMiner to reject or confirm a planet. 

According to NASA, confirmation and validation of an exoplanet are two different things. When different observation techniques reveal features associated only with a planet, n it is said to be "confirmed". On or hand, scientists "validate" a planet using statistics, that reflect possibility of celestial objects being a planet. Hamed Valizegan, ExoMiner project le also glorified machine-learning network saying, "When ExoMiner says something is a planet, you can be sure it's a planet". He ded that apart from its accuracy, ExoMiner is also highly reliable than humans and existing machine classifiers.

As for new exoplanets, ne of m are believed to be Earth-like or in habitable zone of ir parent stars, however, NASA said that have certain characteristics similar to overall population of or confirmed exoplanets. Jenkins said that this new chunk of 301 planets will help us understand what makes Earth so unique and will help us understand  planets located beyond our solar system.

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