JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which will be returned to Earth as part of the next space shuttle servicing mission, scheduled to launch on May 11, 2009, took some of Hubble's most famous views.

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Space Shuttle Atlantis has lifted on a mission whose goals include extracting and returning the JPL-built Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.

Read more (May 11)

The story and the people behind Hubble's imaging workhorse.

Read more (May 10)

The Hubble Space Telescope photographed a planetary nebula to commemorate the decommissioning of a super camera.

Read more (May 10)

Throughout history, humanity has been moved by the work of the great artists of their age.

Read more (May 5)

Here are five things you should know about JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which is the oldest and longest working instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.

Read more (May 4)

A "cosmic fountain" of stars, gas and dust was photographed with the JPL-built and -developed Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on Hubble.

Read more (Apr. 21)

On Feb. 24, 2009, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took a photo of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet.

Read more (Mar. 17)

The JPL-developed and -built Wide Field and Planetary 2 camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a view of Jupiter with its moon Ganymede.

Hubble release (Dec. 18)

JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 contributed to a new portrait of one of the universe's most brilliant star-making galaxies.

Go to image (Nov. 20)

The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, designed and built by JPL, is back in the image business. It has been a workhorse on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope since 1993.

Hubble release (Oct. 30)

This landscape-like picture of a star-forming region contains data taken earlier this year with JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.

Hubble release (Oct. 2)

To commemorate Hubble's 100,000th orbit on Aug. 10, scientists used a JPL-designed and -built camera onboard the space telescope snapped this dazzling region of a nebula 170,000 light-years away.

Read more (Aug. 11)

A new sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere.

View release (July 17)

Observations from JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 contributed to this image showing a delicate ribbon of gas floating eerily in space.

Full image and caption (July 1)

More than 800,000 snapshots from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have been stitched together to create a new "coming of age" portrait of stars in our inner Milky Way galaxy.

View release (June 3)

A new red spot on Jupiter has been captured by the JPL-built and designed Wide Field and Planetary 2 Camera, onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This makes for three red spots, or high turbulence storms, on Jupiter.

Hubble release (May 22)

JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an optical image of what was a titanic gamma-ray blast.

Hubble release (Apr. 10)

Now playing online -- a new Martian movie showing the planet rotating. The movie was made from four images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, built and designed by JPL.

Movie and story (Dec. 18)

Comet 17P/Holmes, now visible in the night skies, has been captured by the JPL-built and designed Wide Field and Planetary 2 Camera, onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble Space Telescope news release (Nov. 15)

Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new picture taken by the JPL-built and designed Wide Field and Planetary 2 Camera, onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

+ Hubble release (Oct. 30)