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The planets will still just be star-like bright dots, but we will get some useful new spectral data, and be able to image much smaller and more distant ones. https://webb.nasa.gov/content/science/origins.html

> Webb will also carry coronagraphs to enable direct imaging of exoplanets near bright stars. The image of an exoplanet would just be a spot, not a grand panorama, but by studying that spot, we can learn a great deal about it. That includes its color, differences between winter and summer, vegetation, rotation, weather...How is this done? The answer again is spectroscopy.



genuinely curious if the advancements of AI image generation and editing tools can assist with using this data to produce some approaching realism.


Not with this generation of telescopes. We’re talking about a few pixels worth of data.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HR_8799_Orbiting_Exo...




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