NASA Says AI Found Hundreds Of Hidden Galaxies And Cosmic Oddities In Hubble Data

Deep in the digital bedrock of 35 years of Hubble observation archives, a new AI tool has uncovered more than 800 previously undocumented cosmic anomalies in a scant two and a half days.

Using a sophisticated neural network called AnomalyMatch, astronomers have unearthed nearly 1,400 bizarre astronomical objects hidden within the Hubble Space Telescope’s massive archives. Impressively, the AI sifted through nearly 100 million image cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive in less than three full days. The results, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, represent the first time the entire dataset has been systematically searched for anomalies. Of the nearly 1,400 anomalies confirmed by researchers David O’Ryan and Pablo Gómez, more than 800 had never been documented in scientific literature.