Discover anomalies in data scanned from space

Vast amounts of data has been generated by an array of human sensors like telescopes or exploratory spacecraft examining the mysteries of space. Analysing data at this scale is beyond human abilities - especially when part of the challenge is to find things that we did not know existed - so machine learning plays a vital role. Ultimately this may lead to the discovery of something as exciting as extra-terrestrial beings - but that is probably at least as distant as the creation of Artificial General Intelligence....