Space Telescope Science Institute

The usual fix is to subtract the picture of a different reference star, taken at a different time.

The team, Ferrer Chavez and Wang at Northwestern, with Katherine Baumann at Caltech, Bill Freeman at MIT, and Laurent Pueyo at the Space Telescope Science Institute, built something they call FLIP, a physics-based digital twin of the coronagraph itself, tuned to match each frame.

They report sensitivity improvements of 2 to 15 times across three test stars.

And it recovered the young planet 51 Eridani b at a wavelength where it had previously vanished into the glare.

And the team is worth noticing.

Alongside Ferrer-Chavez and Wang are Catherine Bowman from Caltech, who many listeners will know from the Event Horizon Telescope black hole images, Bill Freeman from MIT, and Laurent Puejo from the Space Telescope Science Institute.

It's computational imaging people working with telescope people.

They tested it on existing Webb observations of three stars, HIP 65426 and 51 Eridani, which both have known planets, and a third star, PYC 5899, with no known companions at all as a control.

Oxygen.

This one comes from the Galaxies Losing Oxygen Via Wntz Project, or GLOW, led by Kristen McQuinn of the Space Telescope Science Institute and Rutgers University.

The paper was published this week in the Astrophysical Journal.

An earlier version had been circulating as a preprint since August.

And he's a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music.

Who wouldn't want to be a graduate of that place? He also created a short film called Deep Field, the impossible magnitude of the universe in collaboration with the Space Telescope Science Institute down in Baltimore, Maryland.

They're the caretakers, if you will, of the Hubble Space Telescope.

And one of the Hubble Telescope's most famous images of the universe is called the Hubble Deep Field.

And I love the telescope that takes the image so much as well, because the Hubble Space Telescope is what inspired me to want to become an astrophysicist.

And this photo that people took, it was a photo that was directed to be taken by the director of the Space Science Telescope Institute.

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special privilege and could choose to waste their time, as many people thought it was, on staring at some boring bit of empty space, guaranteed empty.

constituents and explore the physical conditions of these distant worlds.

So our next guest Dr. Munazza who is an assistant astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute and her research focuses on characterizing the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets.

So we spoke to Dr. Allen about the scientific significance of these discoveries and what modern astronomical instruments can teach us about the wider universe.

So we'll listen to that interview now.

And this is like about four or five or six o'clock at night.

Ed, you better get up here to the Institute in Baltimore.

Luckily, Annapolis is only about an hour from the Institute because we're way ahead of schedule.

We're going to get our first pictures back tonight.

Ed doesn't hesitate.

I just don't even remember getting there or how I got there.

Ed pulls up into a silent car park, enters the building, and heads immediately down to the basement.

There's a whole bunch of people there, mostly scientists, but a lot of data experts and computer people that worked for the Institute.

Spitzer is the Jet Propulsion Lab located at Caltech with IPAC, their infrared center.

And with Webb, well, that's the Space Telescope Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

And they're using much more of that current in the moment LED lights set of hot pinks, deep purples, golden hues that we see with both Hubble images and Webb images.

And In writing about this article, I found myself thinking that, yes, Shakespeare was right.