How we sharpened the James Webb telescope's vision from a million kilometers away

How we sharpened the James Webb telescope's vision from a million kilometers away

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 billion (AU$15 billion) James Webb Space Telescope. There had not been such a leap forward in telescope technology since Hubble was launched in 1990.

Australian Team’s AI Fix Sharpens James Webb Telescope Images

In the vast expanse of space, a million kilometers from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been revolutionizing our understanding of the cosmos since its launch in late 2021. But even this engineering marvel, with its gold-coated mirrors and infrared capabilities, faced an unexpected challenge: a subtle blurring in its high-resolution imaging mode. This issue stemmed from the telescope’s aperture masking interferometer (AMI), a pre…

'How We Sharpened the James Webb Telescope's Vision From a Million Kilometers Away'

The James Webb Space Telescope gets its highest resolution with the aperture masking interferometer (or AMI), "a tiny piece of precisely machined metal that slots into one of the telescope's cameras," according to a new article by Benjamin Pope, an associated math professor at Macquarie University. "We can finally present its first successful observations of stars, planets, moons and even black hole jets." [AMI] was put on Webb to diagnose and m…

'How We Sharpened the James Webb Telescope's Vision From a Million Kilometers Away'

The James Webb Space Telescope gets its highest resolution with the aperture masking interferometer (or AMI), "a tiny piece of precisely machined metal that slots into one of the telescope's cameras," according to a new article by Benjamin Pope, an associated math professor at Macquarie University. ...