  We present deep 63-orbit HST/PC images at ~0.06" FWHM resolution in the
filters B_450, V_606 & I_814 - as well as in redshifted Lya - of the radio
source LBDS 53W002, a compact narrow-line galaxy at z=2.390. These images allow
us to distinguish several morphological components: (1) an unresolved nuclear
point source (<=500 pc at z=2.390 for Ho=75, qo=0), likely the central AGN
which contains <=20-25% of the total light in BVI; (2) a compact continuum core
(re~0.05"); (3) a more extended envelope with an r^1/4-like light-profile and
re~0.25" (~2 kpc); (4) two blue ''clouds'' roughly colinear across the nucleus
aligned with the radio source axis and contained well within the size of the
radio source. (B-I) color maps may suggest a narrow dust lane crossing between
the nucleus and the smaller blue cloud. The radio source is not smaller than
the distance between the blue continuum clouds, and coincides with a bright Lya
''arc'' in the western cloud, suggesting that jet-induced star-formation could
cause both blue clouds, except the outer parts of the western cloud. The shape
of this larger blue cloud suggests reflected AGN continuum-light shining
through a cone (plus re-radiated Lya in emission). The OVRO interferometric
CO-detection (Scoville et al. 1997) on both sides of 53W002 - and in the same
direction as the continuum clouds and the radio jet - also suggest a
star-bursting region induced by its radio jet, at least in the inner parts.
Even at radio powers ~1.5 dex fainter than the 3CR sources, we thus find many
of the same aligned features and complex morphology, although at much smaller
angular scales and lower optical-UV luminosities. We discuss the consequences
for 53W002's formation in the context of the 16 sub-galactic objects at z~2.40
around 53W002 (Pascarelle et al. 1996).
