Asteroid path found in Hubble image

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11 May 2022 12:01

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To mark International Asteroid Day in June 2019, international astronomers have launched Hubble Asteroid Hunter, a citizen science project to identify asteroids in the Hubble Space Telescope's permanent archive.

Initiated and developed by researchers and engineers at the European Space Agency's Science and Technology Center (ESTEC) and the European Space Astronomical Center (ESDC) Scientific Data Center in collaboration with the operating system.

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The Citizen Science Project recently revealed the discovery of 1,701 new asteroid paths in the Hubble Space Telescope data that comprises more than 37,000 images accumulated over 20 years between months.

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With Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3-WFC3), with a normal observation time of 30 minutes, the asteroid line appeared as a curve. or streaks in these images

More than 11,400 citizen scientists classified and analyzed those images using artificial intelligence (AI)-based automated algorithms. Finally, the final dataset consisted of 1,701 asteroid paths in 1,316 Hubble images.

The project underscores Hubble's potential to photograph fuzzy asteroids.

and never known before

This will provide a new approach to locating asteroids from a decades-old archive of astronomical data.

It is believed that this approach could be effectively applied to other datasets.

Credit : European Space Agency

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