In regard to ‘fairness’ (if you think of getting an APOD a competitive process) I was a little surprised that what seems to be an AI sharpened image did receive a NASA gong recently.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/201...issamAyoub.jpg
The overall image is still stunning I think (the blue OIII rim stands out so well against those rich reds) but to let what I think are regions of generated (possibly AI generated?) detail fly seemed to me a little bit of an oversight. I would have thought some somewhat scientifically grounded processing would be necessary to just get past go. Anyway, I really know nothing about APODs and I’m probably being a geekish prude
