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New Interferometer Enhances James Webb's Cosmic Clarity
11/3/2025
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- Australian researchers developed the aperture masking interferometer (AMI) to boost James Webb Space Telescope resolution after its December 2021 launch.
- AMI-enabled observations produced clear images of Jupiter's moon Io.
- AMI also captured a jet from a black hole in galaxy NGC 1068.
- Initial image clarity issues caused by electronic effects were corrected by a new method.
