Hubble Photographs a Planetary Nebula to Commemorate Decommissioning of Super Camera
Monday, May 11, 2009 - 15:07
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble's longest-running optical camera, which was developed and built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., a planetary nebula has been imaged as the camera's final "pretty picture."