An 18-year-old student created an algorithm for NASA data. Now it has grown into a catalog of 1.9 million space objects

The project of American schoolboy Matteo Paz, who used machine learning to sift through NASA's vast archive of observations, has grown into a full-fledged astronomical catalog. VarWISE has already collected more than 1.9 million space objects with variable brightness. Moreover, the authors consider This is reported by Space Daily. Varying brightness is when a celestial object gets brighter or dimmer over time. This can happen, for example, due to stellar pulsations, flares, or when one object periodically obscures another. The work on VarWISE w... [1353 chars]