Globular Cluster M 15: This picture shows the central portion of M15, photographed with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The image is about 28 light-years across.

Name: M 15, Messier 15, NGC 7078
Type: Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster : Globular
Category: Star Clusters
Distance: 35000 light years
Release date: 8 November 1995, 06:00
Credit: P. Guhathakurta (UCO/Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz), B. Yanny (Fermi National Accelerator Lab), D. Schneider (Pennsylvania State Univ.), J. Bahcall (Inst. for Advanced Study), and NASA/ESA

NGC 4881: This photo mosaic, which shows a field of distant galaxies, is a computer enhanced reproduction of a picture taken 4 March 1994 with the repaired Hubble Space Telescope. It combines 16 exposures of 15 minutes each, taken through two filters (F555W and F814W) with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The HST WFPC2 field is chevron-shaped, because it is a mosaic of images recorded with three Wide Field cameras and one higher resolution camera (Planetary Camera) in the upper left.

Name: Coma Cluster, NGC 4881
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Coma Berenices
Distance: 300 million light years
Release date: 14 June 1995, 06:00
Credit: Hubble Space Telescope WFPC Team, NASA/ESA, STScI

Faint Blue Galaxies: One of the deepest images of the sky taken to date with the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a population of faint blue galaxies which turn out to be the most common class of objects in the universe.

Name: Faint Blue Galaxies
Type: Early Universe : GalaxyEarly Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category: CosmologyGalaxies
Release date: 24 July 1995, 06:00
Credit: Rogier Windhorst and Simon Driver (Arizona State University), Bill Keel (University of Alabama), and NASA/ESA

NGC 253: An image of the spiral galaxy NGC 253, taken with a ground-based telescope. The galaxy is located about 8 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor.

Name: IRAS 00450-2533, NGC 253
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Sculptor
Distance: 10 million light years
Release date: 20 February 1995, 06:00
Credit: Jay Gallagher (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Alan Watson (Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ), and NASA/ESA

NGC 253: This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of the nearest starburst spiral galaxy, NGC 253, reveals violent star formation within a region 1, 000 light-years across. A starburst galaxy has an exceptionally high rate of star birth, first identified by its excess of infrared radiation from warm dust.

Name: NGC 253
Type: Local Universe : Galaxy : Activity : Starburst
Category: Galaxies
Constellation: Sculptor
Distance: 10 million light years
Release date: 20 February 1995, 06:00
Credit: Carnegie Institution of Washington

The Cygnus Loop: This image shows a small portion of a nebula called the 'Cygnus Loop.' Covering a region on the sky six times the diameter of the full Moon, the Cygnus Loop is actually the expanding blastwave from a stellar cataclysm - a supernova explosion - which occurred about 15, 000 years ago.

Name: Cygnus Loop, NGC 6960, SNR 074.0-08.5
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Supernova Remnant
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Cygnus
Distance: 1500 light years
Release date: 20 February 1995, 06:00
Credit: Jeff Hester (Arizona State University) and NASA/ESA

Oxygen-Rich Supernova: This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the tattered debris of a star that exploded 3, 000 years ago as a supernova. This supernova remnant, called N132D, lies 169, 000 light-years away in the satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Name: IRAS 05240-6948, Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC, N132D, Supernova Remnant
Type: Local Universe : Nebula : Type : Supernova Remnant
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Dorado
Distance: 170000 light years
Release date: 10 April 1995, 06:00
Credit: Jon A. Morse (STScI), William P. Blair (PI; JHU), Michael A. Dopita (MSSSO), Robert P. Kirshner (Harvard), Knox S. Long (STScI), Jon A. Morse (STScI), John C. Raymond (SAO), Ralph S. Sutherland (UC-Boulder), P. Frank Winkler (Middlebury) and NASA/ESA

Galaxy Cluster Abell 2218: This Hubble Space Telescope image of the rich galaxy cluster, Abell 2218, is a spectacular example of Gravitational Lensing. The arc-like pattern spread across the picture like a spider web is an illusion caused by the gravitational field of the cluster.

Name: Abell 2218
Type: Early Universe : Galaxy : Type : Gravitationally LensedEarly Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster
Category: Star Clusters
Constellation: Draco
Distance: z=0.17 (redshift)
Release date: 5 April 1995, 06:00
Credit: W.Couch (University of New South Wales), R. Ellis (Cambridge University), and NASA/ESA

Stormy Weather on Jupiter: Hubble Space Telescope is following dramatic and rapid changes in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere that will be critical for targeting observations made by the Galileo space probe when it arrives at the giant planet later this year. This Hubble image provides a detailed look at a unique cluster of three white oval-shaped storms that lie southwest (below and to the left) of Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

Name: Great Red Spot, Jupiter
Type: Solar System : Planet : Type : Gas GiantSolar System : Planet : Feature : Atmosphere : Storm
Category: Solar System
Release date: 31 March 1995, 07:00
Credit: Reta Beebe, Amy Simon (New Mexico State Univ.), and NASA/ESA

Stormy Weather on Jupiter: Hubble Space Telescope is following dramatic and rapid changes in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere that will be critical for targeting observations made by the Galileo space probe when it arrives at the giant planet later this year. This Hubble image provides a detailed look at a unique cluster of three white oval-shaped storms that lie southwest (below and to the left) of Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

Name: Great Red Spot, Jupiter
Type: Solar System : Planet : Type : Gas GiantSolar System : Planet : Feature : Atmosphere : Storm
Category: Solar System
Release date: 31 March 1995, 07:00
Credit: Reta Beebe, Amy Simon (New Mexico State Univ.), and NASA/ESA

Rotation of the Asteroid Vesta: This is a Hubble Space Telescope series of 24 images showing the full 5.34-hour rotation of the 325-mile diameter (525 kilometer) asteroid Vesta.

Name: Vesta
Type: Solar System : Interplanetary Body : Asteroid
Category: Solar System
Release date: 19 April 1995, 20:00
Credit: B. Zellner (Georgia Southern University) and NASA/ESA

Jet from Young Star: Tip to tip, this jet spans slightly more than a light-year. The fountainhead of this structure - the young star - lies midway between the jet, and is hidden from view behind a dark cloud of dust. The nearly symmetrical blobs of gas at either end are where the jet has slammed into interstellar gas.

Name: HH 1, HH 2
Type: Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Young Stellar ObjectMilky Way : Nebula : Type : Jet
Category: Stars
Constellation: Orion
Release date: 6 June 1995, 20:00
Credit: J. Hester (Arizona State University), the WFPC 2 Investigation Definition Team, and NASA/ESA