Wavelengths in nanometers
(One meter equals 1,000,000,000 nanometers. One nanometer is about the length of ten atoms in a row.)

 

 

 

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Spectrum 101

The Instruments Defined

 

 

 

  
What wavelengths of light do Hubble's instruments see?

* FOC is scheduled to be removed in early 2002.