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Ep 152: Webb’s pinhole mask is letting astronomers resolve details on Io and young stars that…
Fascinating Frontiers 🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Webb’s pinhole mask is letting astronomers resolve details on Io and young stars that ordinary imaging cannot reach. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories Webb Applies Pinhole Mask to Study Io and Young Stars — NASA Science The technique places a mask with several small pinholes in the light path to enable aperture masking interferometry. Teams used it to observe the massive binary Wolf-Rayet 137, the young star PDS 70, and Jupiter’s moon Io. The method combines light from separate parts of the telescope mirror to achieve…
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