Thursday, May 14, 2009

A fond farewell...

...to the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, otherwise known as WFPC2, otherwise known as "wiff-pik-too."

WFPC2 not only saved the Hubble after a disastrous beginning


,it went on to bring us almost all of the HST's most spectacular and memorable images:


The Spirograph Nebula




The Crab Nebula


The Hubble Deep Field


The Pillars of Creation



the Shoemaker-Levy collision with Jupiter



and finally, the last official "pretty picture" from WFPC2 - Planetary Nebula Kahoutek 4-55, located in Cygnus.




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