Excerpt of the COSMOS survey in full resolution
This image shows an excerpt of the COSMOS survey in full resolution. COSMOS - the Cosmic Evolution Survey - is the Hubble Space Telescope's largest ever survey of the Universe and was carried out by an international team of 70 astronomers. In making the COSMOS survey, Hubble photographed 575 adjacent and slightly overlapping views of the universe using the Advanced Camera for Surveys' (ACS) Wide Field Camera onboard Hubble. It took nearly 1,000 hours of observations. The distances to the galaxies were determined from their spectral redshifts, using ESO's Very Large Telescope, the Subaru and CFHT telescopes in Hawaii and the Magellan telescope in Chile.
The full COSMOS image in full resolution would be 100,800 x 100,800 pixels. The image was taken in hear-infrared light (Hubble's F814W, or I-band, filter).
Credit:About the Image
Id: | heic0701i |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | 7 January 2007, 19:30 |
Related releases: | heic0701 |
Size: | 4000 x 4000 px |
About the Object
Name: | COSMOS |
Type: | Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field |
Constellation: | Sextans |
Category: | Cosmology |
Image Formats
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Coordinates
Position (RA): | 10 1 13.22 |
Position (Dec): | 2° 17' 25.59" |
Field of view: | 3.40 x 3.40 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is -0.0° left of vertical |
Colours & filters
Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
---|---|---|
Infrared I | 814 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
ACS |