# I Spent Two Hours Hunting Cosmic Mirages. Here Is What the Telescope Could Not Do Alone.

- slug: i-spent-two-hours-hunting-cosmic-mirages-here-is-what-the-telescope-could-not-do-alone
- date: 2026-04-26
- category: Space & Aerospace

AI found 300,000 candidates in 72 million galaxies. Now it needs you to tell it which ones are actually cosmic mirages.

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