The full COSMOS survey field
esahubble_heic0701g January 7th, 2007
Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Koekemoer (STScI)
This image shows the full COSMOS field at one tenth 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. At full resolution the image would be 100,800 x 100,800 pixels. The image was taken in near-infrared light (Hubble's F814W, or I-band, filter).
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0701g/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0701g
- Subject Category
- D.6.1.1
- Subject Name
- COSMOS FIELD
- Credits
- NASA, ESA and A. Koekemoer (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2007-01-07T19:30:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0701g/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale
- Band
- Infrared
- Bandpass
- I
- Central Wavelength
- 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 150.114153999, 2.2307326548
- Reference Dimension
- 10080.0, 10080.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5040.0, 5040.0
- Scale
- -0.000139004793926, 0.000139004793926
- Rotation
- -0
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic0701g
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0701g.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2015-10-02T14:26:11.705657
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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