“I Mapped the Invisible”: An American High-School Student Stuns Scientists by Discovering 1.5 Million Lost Space Objects

“I Mapped the Invisible”: An American High-School Student Stuns Scientists by Discovering 1.5 Million Lost Space Objects

In what may be one of the most unexpected breakthroughs in modern astronomy, a high school student from California has used artificial intelligence to detect over 1.5 million previously unidentified space objects—all from data collected by a retired NASA mission. His work has now been peer-reviewed and published in The Astronomical Journal, giving it firm footing in the scientific community. An AI Pipeline Built by a Teenager Matteo Paz, a teena…