University of Texas at San Antonio researchers developed a way to enhance images from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Enhancing images from the James Webb Space Telescope of objects 127 million light-years from Earth takes more than a smartphone app or photo-editing software, and some University of Texas at San Antonio researchers have found a way to expedite the process. Mason Leist, a graduate research assistant in UTSA’s physics department, led a study of ways to improve images from the $10 billion space telescope that launched in 2021 and is currently about a million miles from Earth.
astronomer receives Webb telescope data to study galaxies, black holes The telescope “has exquisite image quality, but it still has some image issues,” Packham said. “Physics means that there’s some residual image things that are left over … not aberrations, but kind of image things that get in the way of the things that Mason wants to look for, these very faint dusty structures.
astrophysics professor on team developing next-generation space telescope to search for life The telescope captures observations at five wavelengths. Sometimes, certain features are visible only in certain wavelengths. In the telescope’s observations of NGC 5728, the researchers identified a faint feature in only one wavelength.
Commentary: Eclipse will last minutes, but could spark lifelong love of science Leist, Packham and 32 co-authors from institutes around the world recently published their findings in the Astronomical Journal. The Webb telescope “has incredible sensitivity, and it has incredible quality of the images, but still, if we can make it any better, that gives us the edge in this competitive area of science,” Packham said.
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