"Hubble hit by instrument failure"

Source: BBC News

One of the four instruments on board the Hubble Space Telescope
has stopped working, US space agency Nasa has said.

The STIS, or Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, was installed
during the second Hubble servicing mission in 1997 and was
designed to work for five years

It was used to investigate black holes, to discover dim stars
that reveal clues to the age of the Universe and study the
atmosphere of an extrasolar planet.

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