The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Atlantis WikipediaThe telescope will continue to perform science observations with its other three active instruments, while the Wide Field Camera 3 anomaly is investigatedOne of the premier cameras on the Hubble Space Telescope is no longer working and NASA shut down the camera while the issue is being investigated, NASA said on Tuesday. The Wide Field Camera 3, or WFC3, which was installed in 2009, reported an error on Tuesday and its operations were suspended. "Hubble will continue to perform science observations with its other three active instruments, while the Wide Field Camera 3 anomaly is investigated," reads a statement from NASA. According to CNN, Tom Brown, the Hubble mission head at the Space Telescope Science Institute, teams are busy troubleshooting the issue and a reboot to the system might be an option as a fix. The WFC3 is out of commission for now but the other three instruments (Advanced Camera for Surveys, the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph) on the Hubble are functioning.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 10, 2019 07:18 UTC