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    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/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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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