Google just helped NASA find an alien planet thousands of light-years from Earth

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Google just helped NASA find an alien planet thousands of light-years from Earth
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And we're tied, folks.*

Thanks to Google and some fancy artificial intelligence, we now know that our solar system is just slightly less unique than we may have thought.*

Scientists have discovered an eighth planet circling the sunlike star Kepler-90, 2,545 light-years away. This means that our solar system and Kepler 90 are now tied for the most number of known planets within a star system.*

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So yeah, maybe we're not that special after all.

The newfound planet, named Kepler-90i, was found using machine learning technology from Google that effectively teach a computer to spot patterns in large datasets. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/14/google-nasa-find-kepler-alien-world-machine-learning/)

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