Scientists sound alarm – Experts have detected about 27,500 asteroids that could cause massive destruction to our planet Earth in the future. Researchers have used high-tech equipment to identify space rocks called Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery (THOR), which are being used to improve understanding of ancient photographs from space, the New York Post reported.
That’s how experts documented thousands of new asteroids, more than the world’s telescopes discovered last year.
The most alarming asteroids were the 100 that will pass within Earth’s orbit, according to the publication. Most asteroids come from the belt between Mars and Jupiter. executive director of the Asteroid Institute told the New York Times that the work represents “a sea change” in the way astronomical research can be carried out in the future.
A complete map of the solar system provides astronomers with critical information for both science and planetary defense,” said Matthew Holman, a dynamicist and search algorithm expert at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2022.
Scientists sound alarm
The NYT reported that the National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) houses 412,000 images in its digital archives, some of which represent 1.7 billion points of light. With the help of Google Cloud, THOR identified all the overlooked space rocks in about five weeks.Scientists sound alarm
“The Asteroid Institute’s work is critical because astronomers are pushing the limits of what can be discovered with current techniques and telescopes,” said THOR co-creator Mario Jurić, senior data science fellow at the eScience Institute at the University of New York. University of Washington.
While none of the asteroids will collide with Earth, the newly developed algorithm could help detect harmful asteroids and other threats from space.
In the new study, the researchers gave HAH members a group of Hubble images to classify and then used the results as a training set for an AI to help it learn to detect photobombed space rocks.Scientists sound alarm
The team then used this AI to review 37,000 Hubble images taken over 19 years in search of new asteroids. The AI identified a total of 1,701 candidates, of which 1,031 had never been seen before.