Medium deep survey: Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based view of the field near galaxy NGC 5548.

Name: IRAS 14156+2522, NGC 5548
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Seyfert
Category: Galaxies
Distance: 250 million light years
Release date: 8 November 1993, 06:00
Credit: Richard Griffiths, The Johns Hopkins University and NASA/ESA

HST snaps optical jet of quasar 3c 273: The Green (V band) image (left) shows the field around the quasar 3c 273 (courtesy Matthew Colless, David Schade and the CFHT). The optical jet can be seen SW of the quasar. The blue (B band) image (right) shows the optical jet as seen by the Faint Object Camera (FOC) on board the Hubble Space Telescope. For comparasion, the 11X11 arcesec FOC field of view is marked on the ground based CFHT image. The insert (right) is a Maximum Entropy reconstructionof the FOC image. This FOC image is derived from three linearly polarized images which show that the brightest knots are highly polarized (20%-50%).a letter which describes these data appears in the 9 September 1993 issue of Nature.

Name: 3C 273, IRAS 12265+0219, QSO B1226+023
Type: Early Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Quasar
Category: Quasars and Black Holes
Distance: z=0.158 (redshift)
Release date: 9 September 1993, 06:00
Credit: R.C. Thomson, IoA, Cambridge, UK;C.D. Mackay, IoA, Cambridge, UK;A.E. Wright, ATNF, Parkes, Australia

HST key project observation of M81 Cepheids: A team of astronomers working with NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope announced results of a major step in the Key Project to measure the Hubble Constant and the age of the Universe.

Name: IRAS F09514+6918, M 81, Messier 81, NGC 3031
Type: Local Universe : Star : Type : VariableLocal Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral
Category: Quasars and Black Holes
Distance: 12 million light years
Release date: 9 June 1993, 06:00
Credit: NASA/ESA, STScI

Spiral Galaxy M100: A picture taken with the WFPC-1 camera in wide field mode, on November 27, 1993, just a few days prior to the STS-61 servicing mission. The effects of optical aberration in HST's 2.4-meter primary mirror blur starlight, smear out fine detail, and limit the telescope's ability to see faint structure.

Name: IRAS 12204+1605, M 100, Messier 100, NGC 4321
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Coma Berenices
Distance: 50 million light years
Release date: 13 January 1994, 06:00
Credit: N/A

M100 Full Field: This is the grand design spiral galaxy M100 captured with the second generation Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC-2), newly installed in the Hubble Space Telescope. Though the galaxy lies several tens of millions of light-years away, modified optics incorporated within the WFPC-2 allow Hubble to view M100 with a level of clarity and sensitivity previously possible only for the very few nearby galaxies that compose our "Local Group." Astronomers must study many galaxies in a host of different environments if they are to come to understand how our own galaxy, our star, and our earth came to be. By expanding the region of the universe that can be studied in such detail a thousand fold, the WFPC-2 will help the Hubble Space Telescope to fulfill this mission.

Name: M 100, Messier 100, NGC 4321
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Coma Berenices
Distance: 50 million light years
Release date: 13 January 1994, 16:30
Credit: NASA & ESA

Star Cluster R136: The image shows the Star Cluster R136 in 30 Doradus.

Name: 30 Doradus, R136
Type: Local Universe : Star : Grouping : Cluster
Category: Star Clusters
Constellation: Dorado
Distance: 170000 light years
Release date: 13 January 1994, 06:00
Credit: NASA/ESA, STScI

Star Cluster R136: The star cluster R136 is a cluster of young, bright stars in 30 Doradus. The image of the cluster was obtained using the second generation Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC-2) in 1994.

Name: 30 Doradus, R136, RMC 136
Type: Local Universe : Star : Grouping : Cluster
Category: Star Clusters
Constellation: Dorado
Distance: 170000 light years
Release date: 17 March 2016, 16:00
Credit: NASA, STScI, ESA/Hubble

Active Galaxy NGC 1068: This image was taken before the installation of COSTAR. Notice how blurry the galaxy is.

Name: M 77, Messier 77, NGC 1068
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Seyfert
Category: Quasars and Black Holes
Distance: 35 million light years
Release date: 13 January 1994, 06:00
Credit: N/A

Eta Carinae: The furious expansion of a huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope comparison image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. Even though Eta Carinae is more than 8,000 light-years away, structures only 15 billion km across (about the diameter of our solar system) can be distinguished in this sharp Hubble image.  Dust lanes, tiny condensations, and strange radial streaks all appear with unprecedented clarity. A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope "natural color" image of the material surrounding the star Eta Carinae, as imaged by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC-2).

Name: Eta Carinae
Type: Milky Way : Star : Type : Wolf-Rayet
Category: Stars
Constellation: Carina
Distance: 7500 light years
Release date: 14 January 1994, 06:00
Credit: J. Hester/Arizona state University, NASA/ESA

Hubble Probes the Great Orion Nebula: A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a region of the Great Nebula in Orion, as imaged by the Wale Field Planetary Camera 2. This is one of the nearest regions of very recent star formation (300,000 years ago). The nebula is a giant gas cloud illuminated by the brightest of the young hot stars at the top of the picture. Many of the fainter young stars are surrounded by disks of dust and gas, that are slightly more than twice the diameter of the solar system (or 100 Astronomical Units in diameter).

Name: M 42, Messier 42, NGC 1976, Orion Nebula
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Orion
Distance: 1400 light years
Release date: 14 January 1994, 06:00
Credit: C.R. O'Dell/ Rice University NASA/ESA

Star cluster: These comparison images of the core of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC104) were taken with the COSTAR Corrected Faint Object Camera to show the improvement in performance when compared to images taken with the uncorrected camera.

Name: 47 Tucanae, NGC 104
Type: Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster : Globular
Category: Star Clusters
Distance: 15000 light years
Release date: 14 January 1994, 06:00
Credit: Dr. R. Jedrzejewski (STScI), NASA, ESA

Star evolution: This series of Hubble images show what is called stellar evolution. Notice the enhancement of the lower image compared to the others. The enhancement is caused by the installation of COSTAR. This series of HST images show what is called stellar evolution. Notice the enhancement of the lower image compared to the others. The enhancement is caused by the installation of COSTAR.

Name: SN 1987A, Stellar Evolution
Type: Local Universe : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Supernova
Category: Stars
Distance: 170000 light years
Release date: 14 January 1994, 06:00
Credit: Dra. P. Jakobsen (ESA/STScI), F. Macchetto ESA/STScI). R. Jedrzejewski (STScI), and N. Panagia (ESA/STScI). The April 1992 through October 1993 pre-COSTAR data was provided courtesy of R. Kirshner (CfA) and the SINS Collaboration.