The Hubble Space Telescope takes a lot of pictures. In fact, NASA estimates Hubble has snapped 1.7 million images since it launched in 1990. But this poses a unique issue: It's almost impossible for scientists to examine all of the images.
With this in mind, a pair of researchers at the European Space Agency (ESA) built an AI model called AnomalyMatch to comb through the vast Hubble Telescope dataset, and the AI managed to discover 1,300 anomalies, or objects with odd appearances. Hundreds of these anomalies have never been documented before.
