A fully automated process, including a brand-new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, has successfully detected, identified and classified its first supernova. Not only does this rapidly accelerate the process of analyzing and classifying new supernova candidates, it also bypasses human error.
They will still get the opportunity to do observations and imaging.
The tools described in the article are used to help with the analysis of already created images. This is actually an extremely tedious and time-consuming process where it’s not uncommon to rely on volunteer crowdsourcing just due to the sheer volume of pictures. The larger telescopes around the world are almost always taking images of the sky looking for changes for one reason or another.