The race to repair Hubble was on. Under Pressure Two years was nowhere near enough time to build a new camera instrument from scratch. Thankfully, WFPC2 was already under construction at JPL ...

In tribute to Hubble's longest-running optical camera, a planetary nebula has been imaged as WFPC2's final "pretty picture." This planetary nebula is known as Kohoutek 4-55 (or K 4-55).

This image was the final work of the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), which was Installed by astronauts on Hubble Space Telescope in 1993. A replacement for the original Wide Field and ...

Hubble launched in 1990 with five primary ... The new instrument, Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), featured significantly improved ultraviolet detection and corrective optics.

This image itself was also the final work of one of Hubble's instruments: the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). Installed in 1993 to replace the original Wide Field and Planetary Camera ...

In 2019, Hubble released an image of M90 created with Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) data taken in 1994, soon after its installation. That WFPC2 image has a distinctive stair-step ...

This image highlights two giant stars, WR 25 and Tr16-244, in the Trumpler 16 cluster, nestled inside the Carina Nebula — a glowing cloud of gas and stars about 7,500 light-years away in the Carina ...

The WFPC was replaced with the WFPC2, which came with ... and Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) replaced Hubble's GHRS and FOS. The swap expanded the telescope's vision ...

I worked with Schneider on the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, or STIS, a camera that flew up to Hubble on the Space ... before WF/PC was replaced by WFPC2. Given that the sun blasts out ...

NASA’s first (and most urgent) servicing mission flew in December 1993; during five separate spacewalks, astronauts installed a new primary camera able to counteract Hubble’s blurred vision ...