In May of 2009, astronauts removed WFPC2 from Hubble and replaced it with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), which continues to operate today — 28 years after Hubble first switched on. WFPC2 was ...

Certainly, the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2, as many scientists call it) is not your normal, everyday camera — it is the size of a baby grand piano. But then again, Hubble does just ...

Most of the famous Hubble images were taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), and the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). WFPC2 was the replacement installed on that service's first mission.

Wide Field Camera 3 replaced WFPC2 in 2009, during the final Hubble servicing mission. The data used in this image was collected just 10 days before the STS-125 crew on space shuttle Atlantis ...

During Thursday's spacewalk, astronauts removed the telescope's main camera. It's an instrument the size of a baby grand piano, and it has taken some of Hubble's most stunning images.

Two instruments from the Hubble Space Telescope, including the camera that corrected an early flaw in the telescope, are now on exhibit at the Smithsonian. The camera, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A pair of spacewalking astronauts overpowered a stubborn bolt and successfully installed a new piano-sized camera in the Hubble Space Telescope on Thursday, the first step ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A pair of spacewalking astronauts overpowered a stubborn bolt and successfully installed a new piano-sized camera in the Hubble Space Telescope on Thursday, the first step ...

A pair of spacewalking astronauts Thursday outfitted the Hubble Space Telescope with a new camera that will allow astronomers to turn their gaze closer to the birth of the universe.

A pair of spacewalking astronauts overpowered a stubborn bolt and successfully installed a new piano-size camera in the Hubble Space Telescope on Thursday, the first step to making the observatory ...