Indian Astronomers Created AI Tool

Researchers from reputed educational institutions of India have done wonders. They have developed a tool based on artificial intelligence, with the help of which they have been able to detect at least 60 such planets, which are likely to be habitable like Earth. Astronomers have developed this new method BITS Pilani, Developed in collaboration with astronomers of the Goa campus.Astronomers developed this new way in association with astronomers from BITS Pilani, Goa campus.They used an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based algorithm for this, where 60 potentially habitable planets have been found out of 5,000 known planets.

What is an anomaly?

• Earth being the only habitable planet among various planets is known as an anomaly.

Anomaly detection technique

• The anomaly detection technique which is suitable for industrial systems applies equally for habitable planet detection.
• This is because in both the cases, anomaly detector is dealing with imbalanced data, where anomalies are outliers.
• These are less in number as compared to the normal data.
• However, with increasing number of discovered exoplanets, finding rare anomalous instances by characterizing them with respect to planetary parameters, populations, types, and habitability potential needs the knowledge of multiple planetary parameters from observations.