He walked into a Caltech lab at 17 and said he wanted to publish a paper. What his AI found in a decade of forgotten NASA data left seasoned astronomers stunned.
The archive held 10.5 years of silence. NASA’s NEOWISE space telescope had scanned the entire sky repeatedly, hunting for asteroids and logging every point of infrared light that crossed its sensors. The result was a database of nearly 200 billion in... [6122 chars]