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 ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy are privately funding four ambitious telescope projects, including the ...

Hubble's optics were built using brand new tech borrowed from NRO for grinding 2.3m mirrors. NRO gave NASA two new telescopes with completed optics. Why would you believe that NRO wouldn't let NASA ...

New Technology Brings Space Telescope Image Quality Down to Earth, Offering Astronomical Image Clarity Never Seen Before The next generation of adaptive optics has arrived at the Large Binocular ...

When the Hubble Space Telescope rose from Earth in April 1990, it was lauded as the eighth wonder of the world. As the most capable observatory ever built, it had grand plans to be a new window to the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is the flown COSTAR (Corrective ...