Bright planets can blind the Webb telescope. A fix is coming.

Here’s why some of the observatory’s solar system pictures are ugly.

When Nobel Laureate John C. Mather used to give talks about the James Webb Space Telescope, he would often use an impressive analogy — that the observatory was so sensitive, it could detect the heat of a bumblebee as far away as the moon.

That’s because Webb, …

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