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[email protected] here is, alas, no special nomenclature for a 15th anniversary. value to the public. The program has been responsible for a large number It is five years short of the vigenary date, or perhaps can be of famous, widely circulated Hubble images. Even with this past high expressed as the sum of the decennial and quinquennial years. standard, the Heritage team, led by Keith Noll, outdid themselves for But for Hubble Space Telescope, the passage of April 25, 2005, this special occasion with two new multicolor images surely destined to exactly 15 years after the deployment of the satellite from the become iconic: a wide-field exposure of M51 (the Whirlpool Galaxy) with TShuttle Discovery, could not be allowed to pass unnoted for lack of a its companion NGC 5195, and a large section of M16 (the Eagle Nebula), name. It is unusual for any high-technology scientific experiment to remain centered about 10 arcminutes away from the already famous image from productive and in the forefront of both the discipline and the public for such the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). The huge number of 2 0 0 5 an extended time interval, and certainly extraordinary for its productivity pixels and wide field of view of ACS, compared with its predecessor Hubble and fame to continually increase with age for such a lengthy time.