• Gork
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    67
    ·
    8 months ago

    The third option, radiation damage to the plates, sounds the most plausible to me.

    It would pre-expose the plate in the same manner as a double exposure in a roll of film so the “stars” would have already been on the plate before use.

    We could point the JWST at it just to be sure though.