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History of Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
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This is the first image of Saturn's ultraviolet aurora taken by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in October 1998, when Saturn was a distance of 810 million miles (1.3 billion kilometers) from Earth. The new instrument, used as a camera, provides more than 10 times the sensitivity of the previous HST instruments in the ultraviolet.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineHistory of Hubble Space Telescope (HST). NASA/MSFC, 1998-01-07. Public domain. ID: 0302061.
