ABSTRACT.The findings of a nine-orbit calibration plan carried out during HST Cycle 15, to fully determine the NICMOS camera 2 (2.0 μm) polarization calibration to high accuracy, are reported.

The ACS image shows stars, gas, and some dust at the core of the galaxy. The original NICMOS infrared image had stars in it too, but by carefully aligning and scaling the ACS image, astronomers could ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 112, No. 772 (June 2000), pp. 827-832 (6 pages) ABSTRACT We observed Sirius, Altair, and Procyon with the NICMOS coronagraph on the Hubble ...

The spatial resolution of NICMOS corresponds to 0.025 light-years at the distance of the Galactic core of 26,000 light-years. Hubble reveals details in objects as small as 20 times the size of our ...

This image of the star HR 8799 was taken by Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) in 1998. A mask within the camera (coronagraph) blocks most of the light from the star.

NICMOS is a $100 million space instrument conceived, designed and built by the University of Arizona under contract from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Thompson, principal investigator for ...

The NICMOS image, however, shows a different picture. In the NICMOS image, most of the pillars are transparent with no star formation. Stars are only being formed at the tip of the pillars.

The planet recovered in the NICMOS data is about100,000 times fainter than the star when viewed in the near-infrared spectrum.

NICMOS's view provided new insights into the physical characteristics of the planet, too. This was possible because NICMOS works at near-infrared wavelengths that are severely blocked by Earth's ...

NICMOS focused on the regions around hundreds of stars, using a coronagraphic disc to block out the glare of the stars themselves. The images were then processed to remove any remaining glare and ...