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Comments on images of Pluto from the Hubble Space Telescope that indicate that the planet has both light and dark regions on its surface. The pictures that were unveiled at the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference; The question of whether ices cover Pluto's south pole; Ice on Europa, one of Jupiter's larger moons; More.

Discusses a photograph of dense gaseous pillars, remnants of a giant gas cloud, known as evaporating gas globules (EGG), which was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. Way that ultraviolet light bombarding the pillars both hinders and fosters star birth; How the images were taken in visible light, which does not penetrate dust; Finding that few of the EGG contain stars.

Reports on the unveiling of photographs of the distant Universe that are the sharpest and most detailed ever recorded. Use of the Hubble Space Telescope; Role of Holland Ford in the photography; Number of galaxies detected by the telescope.

Reports that because of the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers may have accounted for virtually all the sources of visible light in the universe, according to Michael S. Vogeley of Princeton University. Results from his analysis of variations in the faint background glow between galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field, the tiny patch of sky that the telescope focused on for two weeks in late 1995.

Reports on the picture of galaxies near the handle of the Big Dipper taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Image of galaxies of all ages; Information that can be taken from the Hubble Deep Field; Version of the picture unveiled at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society; Determination of the distances of galaxies from Earth.