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there's officially another solar system with eight planets in it NASA held a press conference to discuss two planets discovered using a neural network and machine learning the event focused specifically on Kepler 90i a planet orbiting the star Kepler 90 the discovery brought the total number of known planets in the system to eight which ties with our very own solar system it's the first star known to have at least as many planets orbiting it as our own Sun and because the eight planets orbitting kepler ninety are located in the equivalent of our inner solar system scientists said it could mean systems with eight or more planets are much more common than previously known so how did a machine discover a planet Christopher Shalu a senior software engineer at Google AI and NASA Sagan postdoctoral fellow Andrew Vanderburgh built a neural network and taught it to scan signals from existing datasets collected by the Kepler telescope machine learning allowed the network to flag potential candidates for planet designation spotting them even if the signals were originally too weak to catch the algorithm scan dips in brightness as possible planets traveled in front of their respective stars NASA hopes the development means discovering additional information in data about existing systems by giving astronomers even more time to investigate patterns flagged as possible planets what do you think machine learning could help astronomers accomplish leave your ideas down in the comments for more check out cnet.com I'm Ashley ask Ewa be good humans