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Line 24: NICMOS was conceived and designed by the NICMOS Instrument Definition Team centered at [[Steward Observatory]], [[University of Arizona]], USA. NICMOS is an imager and spectrometer built by [[Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.]] that allows the HST to observe [[infrared light]], with [[wavelength]]s between 0.8 and 2.4 micrometers, providing imaging and slitless spectrophotometric capabilities. NICMOS contains three near-infrared detectors in three optical channels providing high (~ 0.1 arcsecond) resolution, coronagraphic and polarimetric imaging, and slitless spectroscopy in 11-, 19-, and 52-arcsecond square fields of view. Each optical channel contains a 256×256 pixel photodiode array of [[HgCdTe\|Hg<sub>0.554</sub>Cd<sub>0.446</sub>Te]] [[infrared detector]]s bonded to a sapphire substrate, read out in four independent 128×128 quadrants.<ref>{{cite journal\|first1=Chris J. \|last1=Skinner\|first2= Louis E. \|display-authors=4 \|last2=Bergeron \|first3=Alfred B. \|last3=Schultz \|first4=John W. \|last4=MacKenty\|first5= A. \|last5=Storrs\|first6= Wolfram \|last6=Freudling\|first7= D. \|last7=Axon\|first8= Howard A. \|last8=Bushouse\|first9= Daniela \|last9=Calzetti\|first10= L. \|last10=Colina\|first11= D. \|last11=Daou\|first12= D. \|last12=Gilmore\|first13= Sherie T. \|last13=Holfeltz\|first14= Joan \|last14=Najita\|first15= Keith \|last15=Noll\|first16= Christine E. \|last16=Ritchie\|first17= William B. \|last17=Sparks \|first18=A. \|last18=Suchkov\|title=On-orbit properties of the NICMOS detectors on HST\|journal=Proc. SPIE\|volume= 3354\|date=1998\| doi=10.1117/12.317208 \|pages=2–13 \|url=http://www.stsci.edu/hst/nicmos/documents/papers/schultz_spie.pdf\|format=pdf\|series=Infrared Astronomical Instrumentation}}</ref> NICMOS has been largely replaced by the infrared channel of [[Wide Field Camera 3]] after its installation in 2009. NICMOS last worked in 2008, so WFC3 allowed NIR astronomy to continue in a powerful way, preparing the way for coming NIR-focused [[James Webb Space Telescope]]. Another telescope that has supported near-infrared astronomy is the [[Spitzer Space Telescope]] extended mission, capable of seeing deeper into the infrared than WFC3 ==Limitations==

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