Wide Field Camera 3
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The Wide Field Camera 3 is the Hubble Space Telescope's last and most technologically advanced instrument to take images in the visible spectrum. It was installed as a replacement for the Wide Field a
The Wide Field Camera 3 being prepared for its launch aboard STS-125
The Butterfly Nebula imaged by WFC3 in 2009
WFC3 infrared view of the Horsehead Nebula
WFC3 view of Mystic Mountain in the Carina Nebula
James Webb Space Telescope
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The James Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. It is the largest telescope in space, and is equipped with high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments,
Wide Field Camera 3
…Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, which it was designed to largely replace. The near infrared channel is a pathfinder for the future James Webb Space Telescope. Both channels have a variety of broad and narrow-band filters, as well as prisms and grisms, which enable wide-field, very-low-resolution spectroscopy…
Three-quarter view of the top
Bottom (Sun-facing side)
Test unit of the sunshield stacked and expanded at the Northrop Grumman facility in California, 2014
Engineers cleaning a test mirror with carbon dioxide snow, 2015