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1 0 Images List. Mars 6. Title logo. HST servicing 9 6. SL9 G impact 00- S09e Saturn 7. HST on orbit. Copernicus crater 7. SL9 W impact Neptune 8. HST on orbit. Venus 8. SL9 impacts Tucanae cluster 9. HST on orbit. Mars SL9 impacts 000- S8e NGC 88 cluster 0. HST deploy 5. Mars Jupiter aurorae STS NGC 850 cluster. HST deploy 6. Mars Saturn GPN Lagoon. HST deploy 7. Mars Saturn S0e Cone. HST servicing 8. Mars Saturn 00- STS Keyhole. HST servicing 9. Mars Saturn GPN V88 Monocerotis 5. HST servicing 0. Jupiter 55. Saturn -0 STS0_70_ Blinking Eye 6. HST servicing COSTAR. Red Spot -plex 56. Saturn 5 Balick NASA NGC 0 7. HST servicing 5 WFPC. Red Spot -plex 57. Saturn storm -plex NASA NGC 8. HST servicing 6. Jupiter Saturn storm S09e Nov 0. Colliding galaxies 9. HST servicing 7 panels. Comet SL9 59. Saturn aurorae 999- STS Sombrero Galaxy 0. HST servicing 8 5. SL9 A impact 60. Saturn visible 00-8 S09e

2 Images List 6. Saturn IR 76. Starbirth art 5 9. Eagle pillars 06. NGC Saturn UV 77. Starbirth art 6 9. Eagle pillar closeup 07. NGC Uranus 78. Starbirth art 7 9. Trifid 08. Hoag's Object Neptune Starbirth art 8 9. Bok globule 09. NGC Neptune Starbirth art Thackeray's Globule 0. NGC Pluto 8. Orion indicator 96. Horsehead. NGC Pluto Orion Omega. Starbirth in IR Pluto Orion 98. NC in LMC. Starbirth in IR Kuiper belt graphic 8. Orion brown dwarfs 99. Swan. Starbirth in IR Quaoar HST 85. Orion proplyds L 00. Double Bubble 5. NGC Quaoar art 86. Orion proplyds M 0. Hubble-V 6. NGC 60 globules Starbirth art 87. Orion proplyds R 0. NGC NGC 60 pillars Starbirth art 88. LL Orionis 0. N8 in SMC NGC 60 proplyds Starbirth art 89. Herbig- Haro 0 0. Ghost Head 9. NGC 60 supergiant Starbirth art 90. Herbig- Haro N8 in SMC LMC indicator

3 Images List. Tarantula ESO 6. V88 Monocerotis 5. Ant 66. NGC ESO Photo 05a/ Hodge 0 cluster V88 Monocerotis Arches star cluster Hickson Compact Group 79. Supernova 987a 8. V88 Monocerotis 5. Quintuplet star cluster 68. Warped Galaxy Supernova 987a lobes Planetary art Globular cluster M Hickson Compact Group Supernova 987a ring 0. Ring 55. Globular cluster M5 70. Colliding galaxies -09 ESO Photo 0f/99 6. Crab ESO Helix Globular cluster NGC Interacting galaxies 7. Crab HST. Cat's-Eye 57. Omega Centauri interior 7. Interacting galaxies Crab HST- Chandra. Little Ghost 58. NGC Polar ring Cygnus Loop remnant. Eight- Burst 59. NGC The Antennae Supernova remnant N 5. Spirograph 60. Sombrero Galaxy 75. Cartwheel Galaxy Supernova remnant Cass A 6. Eskimo 6. Interacting pair 76. Black hole art Eta Carinae indicator. Eta Carinae Glowing Eye 8. Etched Hourglass Galaxy M5 6. Galaxy M Circinus active 78. Jet in M87. Eta Carinae Twin Jet 6. Galaxy M Black hole disc V88 Monocerotis Egg Galaxy M00 core Gravitational lens

4 Images List STScI STScI STScI 8. Deep Field North indicator 8. Hubble Deep Field north 8. Deep Field South indicator 8. Hubble Deep Field south 85. Ultra Deep Field 86. Cosmic web L 87. Cosmic web M 88. Cosmic web R 89. HST status 90. Title logo S09e570 S09e HST large right 97. HST small left 98. HST small right 99. HST oblique left 00. HST oblique right A B C D E F For background information on each image, we have included reference numbers beneath the thumbnails. These refer to the Space Telescope Science Institute press release number (e.g ); the European Southern Observatory releases; or the NASA electronic image numbers (e.g. ) used to identify mission images. Web URLs for these images can be found on (References and Resources) of this production notes book. M. Orion proplyds all-sky 9. Credit producers M. Cosmic web all-sky 9. Credit images 9. Credit copyright 9. Earth chord 95. HST large left

5 time 0:00 visuals HOUSE lights fade STARS up audio [opening music: 0 seconds] 0:0 For much of human history, this was all we could see of the universe a few thousand 5 stars set in the velvet darkness of night... 6 Planetarium Moon and planets along with the Moon and planets, wandering across the celestial backdrop :5 And this is what anyone can see, on a clear, 0 dark night until we magnify the view :0. Mars. Saturn. Neptune We find desert planets, and gas giant worlds 5 :09. 7 Tucanae cluster 5. NGC 88 cluster 6. NGC 850 cluster Stellar families, clustered together :6 7. Lagoon 8. Cone 9. Keyhole Starlight nurseries of gas and dust. 8 9 : 0. V88 Monocerotis. Blinking Eye. NGC 0 The death shrouds of stars lie in celestial graveyards. 0 :. NGC. Colliding galaxies 5. Sombrero Galaxy Galaxies wheel through the universe, playing out a vast drama of cosmic life and death. 5

6 time visuals audio : HST / Earth chord Today we explore the universe with telescopes that extend our view across time and space, revealing wonders previous generations of stargazers never dreamed of. 5 :59 And some of the most evocative visions have 6 come from a magnificent orbiting 7 observatory the Hubble Space Telescope Title logo [Title music and segue: seconds] :0 7. HST on orbit The Hubble Space Telescope orbits high over 8. HST on orbit the Earth, well above the thick blanket of air 5 9. HST on orbit that complicates viewing in all wavelengths of 6 light for ground-based observatories. 7 8 :5 0. HST deploy The Space Telescope carries instruments 9. HST deploy sensitive to ultraviolet, visible, and infrared 0. HST deploy light. Its optical system resolves objects appearing about a tenth of an arcsecond across. That's like standing on Earth and spotting a rivet on the side of the telescope as it orbits overhead. 5

7 time visuals audio :59. HST servicing Hubble was designed to be maintained by. HST servicing astronauts on regular servicing missions. 5. HST servicing Crews installed special optics to correct a flaw 6. HST servicing COSTAR in the primary mirror. They swapped out 7. HST servicing 5 WFPC instruments and cameras, upgraded 5 8. HST servicing 6 computers, and replaced the telescope s 6 9. HST servicing 7 panels stabilizers and solar panels HST servicing 8 8 :. HST servicing 9 With each servicing mission, the 9 improvements provided scientists with ever 0 more spectacular multi-wavelength images and data. [music segue: 7 seconds] 5 :8 HST / Earth chord Since its launch in 990, the Hubble Space 6 Telescope has seen some extraordinary 7 things. Its vast archives contain data from 8 hundreds of thousands of observations a 9 fascinating tour of the cosmos from Earth 0 orbit. [music bridge: 8 seconds] 5

8 time visuals audio :05 While Hubble spends much of its time looking at extremely distant objects, it has captured. Copernicus crater images of targets as close as our own Moon :6. Venus...and the planet Venus. 5 6 :. Mars 00 But the dry, dusty, desert planet Mars became 7 5. Mars 00 one of Hubble s most popular solar-system 8 6. Mars 999 targets. 9 0 : 7. Mars 999 We ve monitored changes in Martian weather 8. Mars patterns over the years from the circulation 9. Mars of high thin clouds, to the seasonal appearance of dust storms and variations in the polar ice caps. 5 6 [music bridge: 5 seconds] 7 8 :50 0. Jupiter Jupiter is the most colorful and turbulent 9 planet in the solar system. Wind-driven storms 0 churn within its cloud belts. The largest of. Red Spot -plex these the "Great Red Spot" is three. Red Spot -plex times the size of Earth. Hubble tracked this storm for more than seven years. 5

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