Science Alert: The Hubble Space Telescope has a hardware glitch, and one of its most important instruments is offline

Operations on one of Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 were suspended Tuesday as NASA investigates a malfunction. Tom Brown, the Hubble mission head at the Space Telescope Science Institute, said the glitch affects the optical and ultraviolet channels on the camera, which has produced about 50 percent of all Hubble science results in the past decade, and many of its most celebrated images. Engineers are working now to figure out a solution to the problem, which could take days or weeks.

Democracy Dies in Darkness     Science Alert Jan 9, 3:11 PM     The Hubble Space Telescope has a hardware glitch, and one of its most important instruments is offline Operations on one of Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 were suspended Tuesday as NASA investigates a malfunction. Tom Brown, the Hubble mission head at the Space Telescope Science Institute, said the glitch affects the optical and ultraviolet channels on the camera, which has produced about 50 percent of all Hubble science results in the past decade, and many of its most celebrated images. Engineers are working now to figure out a solution to the problem, which could take days or weeks. Read more » Advertisement You received this email because you signed up for news alerts from The Washington Post. Manage my newsletters and alerts | Unsubscribe Privacy Policy | Help ©2019 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071