NICMOS
Near Infrared Camera for Multi-Object Spectrography [HST]
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Small Satellite Astrometry
The Rings Node currently has two volumes of astrometric HST data for the small satellites of Saturn. For more information about and links to the data, see Satellite Astrometry.
The Faint Object Spectrograph was replaced by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and the NICMOS (Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph) replaced the GHRS (Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph).
1998: HST Orbital Systems Test ...
Servicing Mission 2 Discovery (STS-82) in February 1997 replaced the GHRS and the FOS with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), ...
The Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) was needed to take the picture, because the star is hidden at the galactic center, behind a great deal of obscuring dust.
Near Infrared Camera And Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS)
An instrument that sees objects in near-infrared wavelengths, which are slightly longer than the wavelengths of visible light.
A NICMOS filter survey was especially fruitful in unveiling star formation deep in the dusty centers of galaxies. Seeing line emission does require a source of energy input, so that hydrogen is ionized only where 13.
The Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS (Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer) originally used solid nitrogen coolant to reduce the detector temperature to 40 K, although it proved to be problematic.
This HST view of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC4013 shows a thin disk of dust and gas surrounded by a thicker disk of stars.
Credit: NASA, The NICMOS Group (STScI, ESA) and The NICMOS Science Team (Univ. of Arizona).
The Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer was installed during a servicing mission to Hubble in 1997. NICMOS sees objects in deep space by sensing the heat they emit.
Infrared view of Uranus
E. Karkoschka et al. (Univ. of Arizona), NICMOS, HST, NASA
Infrared image of Neptune
Don Banfield (Cornell), JPL, NASA ...
In October 2002, a team lead by Wolfram Freudling used HST's NICMOS (Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph) to observe three of the most distant quasars known (red shifts of 5.78-6.28), ...
This new view is actually a combination of two separate images taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).
The Advanced Camps feature access to professional instruments for imaging at visual and infrared wavelengths with large format CCD and NICMOS electronic cameras, respectively.
Nebula, or NGC 7023, is in the constellation of Cepheus approximately 1,400 light years from Earth and spans about six light years across. The image was composed using Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) ...
We assume there is a faint image near the center of the lens that we cannot see. But now the HST has seen a five-image lens. The infrared camera NICMOS on HST had earlier seen a 3 image lens ( Ibata et al. 1999, AJ, 118, 1922).
 See also: Telescope, Infrared, Light, Star, Earth
  
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