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Neural networks promise sharpest telescope images ever - C C - Feb 23, 2017

https://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/2950-neural-networks-promise-sharpest-ever-images

EXCERPT: Telescopes, the workhorse instruments of astronomy, are limited by the size of the mirror or lens they use. Using 'neural nets', a form of artificial intelligence, a group of Swiss researchers now have a way to push past that limit, offering scientists the prospect of the sharpest ever images in optical astronomy. The new work appears in a paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society....