Amateur citizen scientists and artificial intelligence (AI) teamed up to find 430,000 galaxies scattered across the Universe. The discoveries were made during the Galaxy Cruise project, in which 10,000 volunteers examined data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. The study was published in the scientific journal magazine Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ).
Participants of the scientific initiative and artificial intelligence managed to discover about 30 thousand ring galaxies, which are considered the rarest type of galaxies among all known galaxies. They make up 1% to 3% of the galaxies in the observable Universe.
To enable the neural network to classify galaxies, scientists trained the model on a catalog of 20,000 cosmic structures.
The team determined that ring galaxies have properties that make them transition between spiral galaxies and elliptical galaxies, which have a less defined structure.
It is currently believed that ring galaxies arise when two spiral galaxies collide and merge. When one galaxy crashes into another, it causes impacts that form a ring structure.
According to the researchers, the project not only helped study rare galaxies, but also demonstrated the ability of artificial intelligence to sort through large catalogs of astronomical data.
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Source: Gazeta
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