Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

A team of astronomers have used a new AI-assisted method to search for rare astronomical objects in the Hubble Legacy Archive.

The team sifted through nearly 100 million image cutouts in just two and a half days, uncovering nearly 1400 anomalous objects, more than 800 of which had never been documented before.

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. O’Ryan, P. Gómez (European Space Agency), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)

Go to this research paper — “Identifying astrophysical anomalies in 99.6 million source cutouts from the Hubble legacy archive using AnomalyMatch” — at:

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/12/aa55512-25/aa55512-25.html