Paper Session III-B - Stellar Evolution Today and in the Early Universe

From black holes to an extra-solar planet, the breakthrough discoveries of Hubble Space Telescope (HSl) reveal fascinating new insights into our universe. These discoveries raise at least as many questions as they answer, even as they help us to understand more about our own evolution. Searching for the origin of the universe is very much like archeology. Astronomers, like archeologists, must peel away the strata of time to find clues. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than with HST. This telescope achieves what no other has yet accomplished: it is peering back to the edge of the visible universe to uncover a tantalizing view of galaxies that formed as early as 2 billion years after the Big Bang. HST literally looks back in time to when our universe was much younger