{"id":217054,"date":"2025-07-02T22:03:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ai-powered-chronoflow-uses-stellar-rotation-rates-to-estimate-stars-ages"},"modified":"2025-07-02T22:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:03:35","slug":"ai-powered-chronoflow-uses-stellar-rotation-rates-to-estimate-stars-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ai-powered-chronoflow-uses-stellar-rotation-rates-to-estimate-stars-ages","title":{"rendered":"AI-powered ChronoFlow uses stellar rotation rates to estimate stars\u2019 ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-powered-chronoflow-uses-stellar-rotation-rates-to-estimate-stars-ages.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy\u2014yet, it remains a challenge since stellar ages can\u2019t be ascertained through observation alone. So, astronomers at the University of Toronto have turned to artificial intelligence for help.<\/p>\n<p>Their new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/model\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">model<\/a>, called ChronoFlow, uses a dataset of rotating stars in clusters and machine learning to determine how the speed at which a star rotates changes as it ages.<\/p>\n<p>The approach, <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/adcd73\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> recently in <i>The Astrophysical Journal<\/i>, predicts the ages of stars with an accuracy previously impossible to achieve with analytical models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy\u2014yet, it remains a challenge since stellar ages can\u2019t be ascertained through observation alone. So, astronomers at the University of Toronto have turned to artificial intelligence for help. Their new model, called ChronoFlow, uses a dataset of rotating stars in clusters and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}