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Astronomical application

Transit Detection

Picking the tiny, periodic dips of an exoplanet transit out of a noisy stellar light curve — and telling a real planet from the many kinds of false positive. Machine learning now helps sift the enormous light-curve archives of transit surveys for the faintest candidates.

Knowledge connections

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The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

  • NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

    Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

    Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.