谷歌和NASA发现第二个太阳系

背景音乐：Big Bang Theory - The Big Bang Theory Theme (Vocal Version)

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Fortune/财富：

NASA and Google have discovered two new planets in a far-away solar system using cutting-edge artificial intelligence, or AI, technologies.

The newly discovered exoplanets, or planets outside of the earth’s solar system, were found after researchers applied the same AI techniques that help computers recognize images like cats in photos to data gathered from the Kepler space telescope.

The Telegraph/每日电讯报：

Google has previously discovered lost tribes, missing ships and even a forgotten forest. But now it has also found two entire planets.

The technology giant used one of its algorithms to sift through thousands of signals sent back to Earth by Nasa’s Kepler space telescope.

One of the new planets was found hiding in the Kepler-90 star system, which is around 2,200 light years away from Earth.

The discovery is important because it takes the number of planets in the star system up to eight, the same as our own Solar System. It is the first time that any system has been found to have as many planets as ours.

planet 行星

solar system 太阳系

cutting-edge 尖端的

artificial intelligence 人工智能

exoplanet 系外行星

algorithm 算法

sift through 筛选；仔细检查

light year 光年

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