The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble’s longest-running optical camera, ...
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 are ...
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Worlds apart, cameras alike? NASA scientist explains interplanetary photography (and its Earthly similarities)
We explore the worlds of our solar system using spacecraft bristling with many tools – magnetometers, mass spectrometers, radar, and so on. But cameras provide the most accessible information on the ...
Click to open image viewer. This is the original, flown Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) that was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1993, and removed during the last servicing ...
We have been exploring our solar system for over 80s years now, and we have learned so much. This week, we examine a Voyager 2 image of Triton, a Cassini image of Saturn with its moons, a panoramic ...
Our solar system is a wonder, from the star at the center to the planets and moons in orbit, as seen in these fantastic pictures taken by Hubble, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, and the Mars ...
Hubble captures a dying star cracking open the dazzling, dust-filled Egg Nebula in a rare cosmic transformation.
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