NASA’s James Webb telescope is being improved with AI - here’s how

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When NASA launched its $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope in 2021, scientists hailed the mission as the greatest achievement of its kind in over three decades.

Soon, however, scientists noticed a major problem with the world’s most finely tuned camera: its pictures were blurry. To solve this issue, a pair of Australian researchers developed an artificial intelligence program dubbed AMIGO (Aperture Masking Interferometry Generative Observations) to address resolution issues in Webb’s most powerful telescope cameras.

The development underlines how the extreme distances of satellites like the James Webb Space Telescope can complicate maintenance and repairs. Located a million miles from Earth, the telescope cannot be as easily repaired as its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope.

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