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Re:James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Fomalhaut's Disk in Un... by sbierwagen on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @11:36PM (#35883345)
To be clear, they were using the coronagraph: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.03789.pdf

>The 23.0 µm coronagraph of MIRI uses a classic Lyot mask to achieve high contrast imaging near bright sources. The mask is rather large, providing an inner working angle (IWA) of ∼ 3.3λ/D, i.e., ∼ 2. Our data is the first complete reference PSF subtracted set of observations taken with JWST using this mode.

There's some residual light and diffraction effects around the Lyot mask which they have manually deleted.

Re:James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Fomalhaut's Disk in Un... by hn8305823 on Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:15PM (#35907791)
Some images used a mask and some did not. The 25.5 micron image at the top of the article is one that did not use a mask.