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ESA/Hubble heic2603: Researchers discover hundreds of cosmic anomalies with help from AI. A team of astronomers have used a new AI-assisted method to search for rare astronomical objects in the Hubble Legacy Archive. The team sifted through nearly 100 million image cutouts in just two and a half days, uncovering nearly 1400 …

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ESA/Hubble News
27 January 2026

A team of astronomers have used a new AI-assisted method to search for rare astronomical objects in the Hubble Legacy Archive. The team sifted through nearly 100 million image cutouts in just two and a half days, uncovering nearly 1400 anomalous objects, more than 800 of which had never been documented before.

The release, images and videos are available on:
https://esahubble.org/news/heic2603/

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27 January 2026

 
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