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The Rare Stellar Objects AI Is Helping Astronomers Find
12 September 2026

The Rare Stellar Objects AI Is Helping Astronomers Find

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Astronomers at Vilnius University are using artificial intelligence to uncover rare hot subdwarfs hidden within Gaia’s enormous star catalog.

A convolutional neural network can identify these unusual stripped-down stellar cores in seconds, opening a new way to study how these mysterious binary systems evolve.

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