A scientist at Rochester Institute of Technology has expanded the Hubble Space Telescope’s capability without the need for new instruments or billions of dollars. Dan Batcheldor and his team improved ...

The universe’s most distant and ancient galaxies are about to be brought into focus. At the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, a multi-university team of researchers has just installed a very sophisticated ...

Hubble launched in 1990 with five primary instruments designed to capture images from space and transmit them back to Earth. 1. Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC) This instrument was composed of ...

Now that the Hubble Space Telescope's new features have been declared a success, University of Arizona astronomers are "crossing our fingers" for a planned reboot of the Near Infrared Camera and Multi ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been an essential part of NASA’s discovery of celestial bodies in the vast range of the universe. It is currently equipped with several scientific instruments. Which ...

Rodger I. Thompson was the Principal Investigator for the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, NICMOS. He was responsible for the execution of a contract to Arizona Board of Regents ...