The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) is the Hubble Space Telescope's last and most technologically advanced instrument to take images in the visible spectrum...
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The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is a camera formerly installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. The camera was built by the Jet Propulsion...
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The Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) (pronounced as wiffpick (Operators of the WFPC1 were known as "whiff-pickers")) was a camera installed on the Hubble...
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Planetary Camera 2 (1993–2009) Wide Field Camera 3 (installed 2009) Wide Field Camera, at the Isaac Newton Telescope in the Canaries Wide Field Camera, aboard...
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exposures taken in 2002 to 2012 with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3, it shows some 10,000 galaxies. On January 23, 2019, the...
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been re-oriented for publication. The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 was replaced by the Wide Field Camera 3, and the former was taken back to Earth...
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in 2008, and has been largely replaced by the infrared channel of Wide Field Camera 3 after its installation in 2009. The infrared performance of the Hubble...
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Hubble Space Telescope (redirect from Frontier Fields)
(non-operative 2004–2009)) Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC; 1990–1993) Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2; 1993–2009) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3; 2009–present)...
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discovery occurred in April 2015, using the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, and its discovery was announced on 26 April 2016. S/2015 (136472)...
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was first identified in archival Hubble images taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on 18 September 2010. Its discovery was reported and announced by...
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STS-125 (section May 13 (Flight day 3))
Hubble Space Telescope, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and the Wide Field Camera 3. The mission also replaced a Fine Guidance Sensor, six gyroscopes...
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the Hubble Space Telescope. The view was captured by the then-new Wide Field Camera 3, though the region was also viewed by the previous generation instrument...
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star, a white dwarf, was identified in 2009, using the upgraded Wide Field Camera 3 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The star has a current mass...
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optics). Also using reflecting optics, the Hubble Space Telescope with Wide Field Camera 3 can observe in the frequency range from about 0.2 μm (0.0002 mm)...
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(See also sungrazer.) In 2010, between January and May, Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 took images of an unusual X shape originated in the aftermath of...
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converge more due to the wider total field. For example, buildings appear to be falling backward much more severely when the camera is pointed upward from...
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the passage of the light from the background galaxy through the gravity field of the foreground galaxy, the background galaxy's light is lensed by the...
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current size. It was discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3. The nickname SN Wilson is after the American President Woodrow Wilson...
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Deep Survey-North (GOODS-North). The research team used Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 to measure the distance to GN-z11 spectroscopically, measuring the...
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of the Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies (BoRG) program, using the Wide Field Camera 3 of the Hubble Space Telescope. BoRG-58 is located at a distance of...
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Spectrograph Wide Field and Planetary Camera Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 Wide Field Camera 3 McKee, Maggie. "NASA attempts to revive Hubble's main camera"....
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Galaxy (redirect from Galactic magnetic field)
Near-Infrared and the Distance to M31 from the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3". The Astrophysical Journal. 745 (2): 156. arXiv:1110.3769. Bibcode:2012ApJ...
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Hubble Space Telescope: The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, and the Wide Field Camera 3. The mission also replaced a Fine Guidance Sensor, six new gyroscopes...
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Telescope on its 20th anniversary. The area was observed by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on 1–2 February 2010. The pillar measures three light-years (0.92 pc)...
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image of Messier 109 Core of galaxy M109, Hubble image captured by Wide Field Camera 3 Finder chart for galaxy Messier 109 (circled in blue) List of Messier...
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Transmission Spectroscopy of the Exoplanets HD 209458b and XO-1b Using the Wide Field Camera-3 on the Hubble Space Telescope". Astrophysical Journal. 774 (2): 95...
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November 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2021. "Hubble Space Telescope – Wide Field Camera 3". NASA. 22 August 2016. Archived from the original on 13 November...
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(2014). "Parallax beyond a Kiloparsec from Spatially Scanning the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope". The Astrophysical Journal. 785 (2):...
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Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Wide Field and Planetary Camera Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 Wide Field Camera 3 Tanglao, Leezel...
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Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble) which carried an IMAX 3D camera. The IMAX 3D camera contained a mile of film, though this allowed for only 8 minutes...
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