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M100 core WFPC1

This image of spiral galaxy M100 was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field/Planetary Camera 1 in 1993. The photo is blurry due to a manufacturing flaw in Hubble's primary mirror, which created an optical effect called spherical aberration. Celestial images could not...

Date
Jan 1, 2018
Mission
Hubble Space Telescope
Archive ID
hubblesite-images-2018-48-4281-image
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This image of spiral galaxy M100 was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field/Planetary Camera 1 in 1993. The photo is blurry due to a manufacturing flaw in Hubble's primary mirror, which created an optical effect called spherical aberration. Celestial images could not be brought into a single focus.

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NASA, ESA, and Judy Schmidt

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