{"id":208741,"date":"2026-05-04T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/an-american-high-school-student-used-artificial-intelligence-to-map-1-5-million-previously-unknown-objects-in-space-and-the-result-has-stunned-scientists-who-thought-the-sky-had-already-been-searched\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:50:23","slug":"an-american-high-school-student-used-artificial-intelligence-to-map-1-5-million-previously-unknown-objects-in-space-and-the-result-has-stunned-scientists-who-thought-the-sky-had-already-been-searched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/an-american-high-school-student-used-artificial-intelligence-to-map-1-5-million-previously-unknown-objects-in-space-and-the-result-has-stunned-scientists-who-thought-the-sky-had-already-been-searched\/","title":{"rendered":"An American high school student used artificial intelligence to map 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, and the result has stunned scientists who thought the sky had already been searched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/an-american-high-school-student-used-artificial-intelligence-to-map-1-5-million-previously-unknown-objects-in-space-and-the-result-has-stunned-scientists-who-thought-the-sky-had-already-been-searched\/31635\/\">An American high school student used artificial intelligence to map 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, and the result has stunned scientists who thought the sky had already been searched<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a 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