Anne’s Story: From student to planet hunter

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Identifying Exoplanets with Neural Networks

What is an exoplanet? How do we find them? Most importantly, why do we want to find them? Exoplanets are planets outside of our Solar System - they orbit any star other than our Sun. We can find these exoplanets via a few methods: radial velocity, transits, direct imaging, and microlensing...

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GitHub - google-research/exoplanet-ml: Machine learning models and utilities for exoplanet science.

Machine learning models and utilities for exoplanet science. - google-research/exoplanet-ml

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This is the story of the student who became a planet hunter. When Anne Dattilo attended a guest lecture at the University of Texas she had no idea it would be the start of a journey involving complex algorithms, a space telescope breaking down in orbit, a trip to an observatory in the Chihuahuan desert and, finally, the discovery of two new planets.