TOP 10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT HUBBLE

by Irene Klotz
 

In Living Color

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The camera would have given Hubble the ability to capture images from the visible to the near ultra-violet and near infra-red spectra. Credit: NASA
 

4. Grounded Space Camera

Hubble's original camera -- the Wide Field Planetary Camera -- never really got a chance to show its stuff in orbit.

Why? A misshapen prime mirror left Hubble with blurry vision, so the camera was replaced on-orbit in 1993 by a new imager with built-in corrective optics.

The old camera is now on display at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
 
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