Space Daily September 03, 2026 • 17:00

An 18-year-old high school senior from Pasadena wrote machine-learning code to comb 200 billion entries of raw infrared sky data, sorted what came back, and in 2025 found 1.5 million new potential objects - Space Daily

An 18-year-old high school senior from Pasadena wrote machine-learning code to comb 200 billion entries of raw infrared sky data, sorted what came back, and in 2025 found 1.5 million new potential objects - Space Daily

A teenager weaponized a decade of archival telescope data to unearth 1.5 million celestial mysteries that professional astronomers had missed.

Let’s start with the number that makes the rest of the story hard to picture: 200 billion. That is roughly how many rows of data a machine-learning program built by a Pasadena high schooler had to wo… [+5796 chars]

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