Bright key facts / Demonstrated
Ninety-nine million Hubble cutouts, and eight hundred overlooked oddities.
AnomalyMatch processed 99.6 million Hubble Legacy Archive cutouts and the study reports 1,339 anomalies, more than 800 of them previously undocumented, with experts reviewing the candidates.
- AI’s role
- Semi-supervised and active learning ranked unusual images and incorporated expert feedback.
- Documented result
- The peer-reviewed paper reports 99.6 million cutouts processed, 1,339 anomalies, and more than 800 previously undocumented candidates.
- Important limitation
- An anomaly is a selection result, not a confirmed new phenomenon.