We’ve seen a lot of amazing shots from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope over the years, but the high-powered stargazer is now experiencing some unplanned downtime. In a new update, NASA says that Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 is experiencing “a hardware problem,” forcing it to be taken offline while engineers try to figure out what’s wrong.
Wide Field Camera 3 (or just WFC3 for short) is one of Hubble’s most powerful observational instruments. It was installed on the spacecraft during a servicing mission in 2009 and it’s produced some of the most breathtaking images we’ve ever seen of objects and structures in deep space.
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NASA says one of Hubble’s best cameras is busted originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 11:11:11 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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