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).

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.

But Ed Weiler, NASA's chief scientist for the Hubble telescope from 1979 to 1998, said it was not COSTAR that saved the instrument, but rather the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), a ...

First motion is almost always a big event in the world of space exploration. Whether the first motion is of a wheel beginning to rotate or a rocket lifting off the pad, first motion means things ...

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

earning Hubble the title of "the people's telescope." The WFPC2 camera — which has taken more than 135,000 observations — is destined for the Smithsonian Institution. Massimino was corrected ...

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 ...

this one also uses the near-infrared capabilities of Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. Galaxies come in a number of shapes and sizes, so they are categorized by their features into groups ...