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How Two Students Fixed the Focus of James Webb from Earth with Prof. Peter Tuthil, Dr. Louis Desdoigts & Max Charles (468)

Shirtloads of Science by Karl Kruszelnicki

Apr 4, 202628:59Science & Medicine

When a problem with the James Webb Space Telescope left its images frustratingly out of focus, the solution wasn't fixed in space... it was fixed from Earth. At the University of Sydney, PhD students Dr. Louis Desdoigts...

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How Two Students Fixed the Focus of James Webb from Earth with Prof. Peter Tuthil, Dr. Louis Desdoigts & Max Charles (468) is an episode from Shirtloads of Science by Karl Kruszelnicki. When a problem with the James Webb Space Telescope lef...

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Published Apr 4, 2026, 28:59 long, audio available.

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