From 1993 to 2009, WFPC2 was the main, workhorse camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, and took a myriad of iconic images over its lifetime. Just looking at what the difference was for Hubble ...

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).

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope has shut down unexpectedly for the second time this year, the operators of the orbiting observatory announced Friday. The Space Telescope Science ...