In the US, a schoolboy opened 1.5 million new facilities in space

18-year-old high school student with his mentor

Photo: California Technology University

The 18-year-old high school student from the United States has created an artificial intelligence algorithm that helped identify 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space.

The results of the young man outlined in a study that Published in The Astronomical Journal, informs Phys.org.

Matteo Paz first became interested in astronomy in elementary school when his mother brought him to public lectures on stars observation at the California Institute of Technology.

The American school teacher saw the potential for science, so she advised to take additional courses to prepare for college.

In 2022, the high school student returned to the educational institution to study astronomy and associated computer science in the summer. During Matteo’s course, he appealed to Senior Researcher Devi Kirepatrick to become his mentor in writing scientific work.

« He allowed to study unbridled, I think so I grew up as a scientist »– said the high school student.

The scientist suggested Matteo to take a small area of ​​space and try to find the change there. Such bodies are called phenomena that are difficult to fix. These include stars that explode or darken each other, as well as quasars – active galaxy cores that emit a lot of light.

However, the schoolboy did not want to manually review the available data to find new objects and describe them. In addition to astronomy, Mateto was interested in artificial intelligence, so he decided to use it for his work.

The young man used his in -depth knowledge of mathematics and coding to create machine learning techniques that could find previously unknown spaces of space in the course of analyzing a large set of data.

The student’s mentor introduced him to other astronomers who shared with him the experience of machine learning for astronomy.

In 2024, Matteo improved the created artificial intelligence model to analyze the untreated data of the Wise infrared orbital television television.

The algorithm was taught to identify small differences in radiation, which has revealed and classified 1.5 million potential new objects. The complete catalog of these bodies Matteo and Devi Kirepatrick are planned to be published in 2025.

« My model can be used for other time space studies in astronomy and perhaps anything else that comes in time format »– says the schoolboy.

According to him, algorithms also have prospects for analyzing the stock market diagrams and atmosphere, including air pollution.

For their achievements guy got The highest award of the American Scientific Competition for High School Regeneron Science Talent Search and won $ 250,000.

Matteo is currently graduating from school and has a paid work at the California Institute of California in a department that archives and analyzes space missions.

Earlier a 12-year-old schoolboy from the US set a world record by making Nuclear synthesis in your own playroom. Because of this, he was visited from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.