The 20th Anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's STIS Instrument
February 28, 2017
February 28, 2017
BALTIMORE, Feb. 28 -- NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute issued the following news release:
Happy 20th birthday to Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS)! In February 1997, astronauts installed STIS on the telescope during the second servicing mission. The highly versatile and productive instrument combines a camera with a spectrograph, which separates light into its component colors-or wavelengths -- to provide a "fingerprint" of the object being obs . . .
Happy 20th birthday to Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS)! In February 1997, astronauts installed STIS on the telescope during the second servicing mission. The highly versatile and productive instrument combines a camera with a spectrograph, which separates light into its component colors-or wavelengths -- to provide a "fingerprint" of the object being obs . . .