Starship Asterisk*

Maybe, maybe not. What do you mean by "maybe not"? If by that you meant maybe he used Topaz maybe not then the author said specifically in the description that he used Topaz. And a quick zoom in reveals at least several sharpen/detail inventing artifacts. https://photos.app.goo.gl/ne3ktqc...

No, it has been heavily processed, with the intent of revealing specific structural detail, not to look "good". A completely normal and necessary process used by scientific imagers everywhere. The guy used Topaz AI to process the image and the AI based software has a tendency of inventing...

Unfortunately this image has been overprocessed so much that the actual data has been destroyed and the final image looks really bad. No, it has been heavily processed, with the intent of revealing specific structural detail, not to look "good". A completely normal and necessary process u...