Number 308 (Story #2), February 20, 1997 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE UPGRADE has been successfully carried out by Space Shuttle astronauts. The two major newly installed devices are the Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), which will permit a look at the infrared radiation (doppler shifted from the ultraviolet) from young stars in very early (and far out in space) galaxies, and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), which replaces the Faint Object Spectrograph and the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph. STIS will be valuable for studying exotic objects like black holes and violent galaxies, and for searching for extrasolar planets.