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AMIGO sharpens JWST’s view of stars and nearby worlds

Machine learning has given the James Webb Space Telescope a cleaner pair of eyes. A new system called AMIGO reduces distortion in JWST data, letting astronomers pick out faint objects close to bright stars – territory that was effectively off-limits for the telescope before. JWST’s near-infrared camera and spectrograph, NIRISS, is especially suited to this […]