AI predicts age of newly discovered supernovae within milliseconds – Canada Boosts

The remnants of a supernova
The remnants of a supernova

The remnants of a supernova

MPIA/NASA/Calar Alto Observatory

Synthetic intelligence can precisely predict the age of supernovae and different uncommon stellar explosions inside milliseconds of a telescope recognizing them.

That might show helpful for initiatives just like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Area and Time, which is slated to start observing in 2025. The ten-year survey of the southern sky will take 15 terabytes of information per night time and will spot greater than 10 million potential cosmic occasions every night time. Which will increase supernovae discoveries 100-fold.

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