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A new method uncovers an exoplanet hidden in archived James Webb images. Modeling the telescope's optics revealed the known giant planet 51 Eridani b despite its star's glare


A new technique developed by CIERA members Rodrigo Ferrer-Chavez and Jason Wang cuts through the glare of starlight in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images, revealing a giant planet that standard image processing could not see. The method, called Physics-based Learning for Imaging Planets (FLIP

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