50 new planets discovered by University of Warwick scientists

 Astronomers and computer scientists from the University of Warwick have confirmed the discovery of 50 new planets.

The fascinating discovery was made using artificial intelligence, and confirmed by a new machine learning algorithm developed by scientists at the university's astronomy department.

The size of the discovered planets range from worlds as large as Neptune to those that are smaller than the Earth.

It is the first time that astronomers have used artificial intelligence to analyse a sample of potential planets to determine which ones are real and and which are ‘fakes’.

The artificial intelligence calculated the probability of each candidate to be a true planet.

By confirming that these 50 planets are real, astronomers can now computer engineer vs computer science these for further observations with dedicated telescopes.