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The '''Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer''' ('''NICMOS''') is a [[scientific instrument]] for [[infrared astronomy]], installed on the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] (HST), operating from [[1997]] to [[1999]], and from [[2002]] to the present.

NICMOS is an spectrometer built by [[Ball Aerospace]] that allows the HST to observe [[infrared light]], with [[wavelength]]s between 0.8 and 2.5 micrometres, providing imaging and spectroscopy capabilities. NICMOS contains a 256x256 pixels array of [[HgCdTe|Hg{{<sub|>0.554}}</sub>Cd{{<sub|>0.446}}</sub>Te]] [[infrared detector]]s, in four independent 128x128 quadrants.

NICMOS was installed on Hubble during its second servicing mission in [[1997]], when two previous [[spectrograph]] instruments were replaced by the [[Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph]].