Hubble Images Now Clearer with New Software.

The Hubble Space Telescope's images are increasingly being spoiled by satellites, but researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute have developed new software to mitigate the issue and remove the troublesome satellites from photos. The new tool identifies satellite trails in photos captured by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys using an image analysis technique called “Radon Transform.” The software is up to ten times more sensitive than prior software and identifies “roughly twice” as many trails as its previous studies.