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Focuses on photographaphy in outer space. Efforts of Edwin Hubble to photograph distant stars and planets; View that photography has played a central role in the development of modern astronomy; Photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope; View that the work of Hubble and others helped support Einstein's general theory of relativity and formed the basis for the big-bang theory.

Reports the installation of camera on the Hubble Space Telescope by astronauts on board the space shuttle Columbia. Pictures of hubble images taken by the telescope; Clues regarding the origin and evolution of the universe; Description of the spiral galaxies in the constellation Canis Major.

Presents images from the camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. Images of the distant universe which were taken by the camera; Servicing of the observatory by the U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) which keeps the technology on the Hubble up-to-date; Distant galaxies which were recorded by the camera.

Describes images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Eagle Nebula; Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius; Papillon Nebula; Star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Provides information on the Hubble Heritage Program, wherein a selection of images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope will be released to the public, initiated by scientists at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1998. Phases of the program; Examples of Hubble images to be released to the public; Information on the images.

Presents images of various phenomena occurring in outer space through the use of the Hubble Space Telescope. Formation of a new star; Two stars appearing as a single point of light at the center of a nebula; Ring-plane crossing of Saturn; Collision between the Cartwheel Galaxy and another galaxy.

Reports on potentially monumental scientific discoveries revealed at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in San Antonio, Texas in January 1996. The contention of Robert Williams that there are 40 billion more galaxies than previously thought, based on pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope; The importance of the lack of dark matter in the photos; The announcement by astronomers that they had detected two new planets with compositions that could sustain life.

Focuses on photographs from space taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Description; Location of the Hubble Deep Field; Possibilities for investigations; Gravitational lensing effects.

Reports on the images taken by the improved Hubble Space Telescope which reveal the disks of Pluto and its moon Charon more clearly than any previous views. Use of Hubble's Faint Object Camera; Creation of surface albedo maps of Pluto.

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.

Presents a discussion of the problems of the Hubble Space Telescope and indicates that clearing the telescope's vision may be more difficult than anticipated. Improved estimates of the spherical aberration of the primary mirror; Uncertain tilt and position of the secondary mirror; NASA's plans to send up astronauts in 1993 to replace the wide-field/planetary camera; Comment of John Mangus, deputy director of the space sciences directorate at the Goddard Space Flight Center.

Reports on the photograph showing the first details of the surface of the planet Pluto taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Picture taken by the telescope's Faint Object Camera; Features of the image.

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.

Presents five photographs showing the wide range of the Space Telescope Science Institute's work. Photos made by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Informs that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Hubble Space Telescope has probed the inner region of the comet Hyakutake. The probe as the comet passed by Earth in late March 1996; Origin of the comet's name; Photographs from the telescope.

Presents photographic images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on October 16 and 17, 1996. The images revealing supersonic, comet-like clouds of gas speeding through the heart of the Cartwheel galaxy in the constellation Sculptor 500; Why astronomers believe the structures resemble comets; How and when Cartwheel was created.

Presents a photograph of the planet Saturn, the solar system's second-largest planet, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Brief details; How United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) experts adjusted the digital image to reflect the planet's true colors.

Focuses on the use of electronic cameras on the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Hubble Telescope Servicing Mission, which repaired the telescope. Harm done to the telescope by meteoroid and debris impact, radiation, and temperature extremes; Work which was done on the telescope by astronauts James Newman and Michael Massimino; Images which were captured by the camera on the Hubble.

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.

Describes the Eskimo Nebula, 8th-magnitude NGC 2392 in Gemini, which consists of gas, as viewed through the Hubble Space Telescope.

Provides information on Hubble Deep Field, an image released by astronomers in January 1996, which was collected over 10 days showing a tiny patch of sky near the Big Dipper. Significance of the image; Information on the Hubble Space Telescope; Features of the image.

Provides information on a Hubble Space Telescope natural color image, which provides a view of the scaled-down version of distant galaxies' bouts of massive star formation. Details on the phenomenon; Benefits of astronomers from Hubble.

Explains a photograph of the Bubble Nebula taken in outer space by the Hubble Space Telescope. Creation of the nebula; Better pictures taken by the Hubble telescope than ground-based telescopes.

Provides information on the images of young stars surrounded by opaque gas disks of gas and dust where planets soon may form, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Estimated age of the stars; Analysis of the images.

Presents images of Uranus and Neptune gathered by the infrared camera of the Hubble Space Telescope in August 1998. Detection of clouds at various elevations in Uranus' atmosphere; Circulation patterns of Neptune.

Presents a 2-arcminute-wide image of a spot on the southern constellation Tucana that was obtained with the Hubble telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Details of the original cosmological core sample taken by the Hubble Space Telescope; Estimated number of galaxies depicted in the image.

Reports on the observation of rings of unknown origin around Supernova 1987A. Use of the Wide Planetary Field Camera onboard the Hubble Space Telescope; Distance from Earth.

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.

Features a photograph of glowing gases around stars that herald their deaths taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Description; Possible explanations for the glowing glasses.

Focuses on images of Pluto taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Description of the planet; Brightness; Interpretation of the images.

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.

Reports on the outcome, as observed by the Hubble telescope, of when galaxies collide. Why the collision of galaxies gives birth to stars; The images obtained by the telescope; What astronomers are expecting of the Hubble telescope.