A new algorithm could play a key role in helping astronomers identify killer asteroids that are hiding in plain sight.
An algorithm could make finding killer asteroids easier
The tool doesn’t rely on a new telescope or even new observations. Instead, it looked at older images stored in the digital archives at the National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory . Then, the researchers let the algorithm get to work searching 412,000 different images. The goal was to sift out possible killer asteroids from over 68 billion dots of cosmic light showcased in the images.
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