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).

Name: COSMOS
Type: Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category: Cosmology
Constellation: Sextans
Release date: 7 January 2007, 19:30
Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Koekemoer (STScI)

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).

Name: COSMOS
Type: Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category: Cosmology
Constellation: Sextans
Release date: 7 January 2007, 19:30
Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Koekemoer (STScI)

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).

Name: COSMOS
Type: Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category: Cosmology
Constellation: Sextans
Release date: 7 January 2007, 19:30
Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Koekemoer (STScI)

DSS COSMOS field (ground-based image): This image shows the COSMOS field and is a colour composite made from Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2) exposure. The field of view is 3.3x3.3 degrees.

Name: COSMOS
Type: Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category: Cosmology
Constellation: Sextans
Release date: 7 January 2007, 19:30
Credit: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble), the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator & Digitized Sky Survey 2

The COSMOS survey: This composite shows three different components of the COSMOS survey: The normal matter (in red) determined mainly by the European Space Agency's XMM/Newton telescope, the dark matter (in blue) and the stars and galaxies (in grey) observed in visible light with Hubble.

Name: COSMOS
Type: Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Large-Scale StructureEarly Universe : Cosmology : Phenomenon : Dark Matter
Category: Cosmology
Constellation: Sextans
Release date: 7 January 2007, 19:30
Credit: NASA, ESA and R. Massey (California Institute of Technology)

New stars shed light on the past: This image depicts bright blue newly formed stars that are blowing a cavity in the centre of a fascinating star-forming region known as N90. The high energy radiation blazing out from the hot young stars in N90 is eroding the outer portions of the nebula from the inside, as the diffuse outer reaches of the nebula prevent the energetic outflows from streaming away from the cluster directly. Because N90 is located far from the central body of the Small Magellanic Cloud, numerous background galaxies in this picture can be seen, delivering a grand backdrop for the stellar newcomers. The dust in the region gives these distant galaxies a reddish-brown tint.

Name: N90, NGC 602
Type: Local Universe : Star : Grouping : ClusterLocal Universe : Nebula : Type : Star Formation
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Hydrus
Distance: 200000 light years
Release date: 8 January 2007, 18:20
Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

Overview of the region around N90 (ground-based image): This image shows the area around N90 and is a colour composite made from Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2) exposure. The field of view is 3.1x2.8 degrees.

Name: N90, NGC 602
Type: Local Universe : Star : Grouping : ClusterLocal Universe : Nebula : Type : Star Formation
Category: NebulaeStar Clusters
Constellation: Hydrus
Distance: 200000 light years
Release date: 8 January 2007, 18:20
Credit: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble), the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator & Digitized Sky Survey 2

Hubble reveals NGC 2440: This image of NGC 2440 shows the colourful "last hurrah" of a star like our Sun. The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star's remaining core. Ultraviolet light from the dying star makes the material glow. The burned-out star, called a white dwarf, is the white dot in the centre.

Name: NGC 2440
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Planetary
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Puppis
Distance: 4000 light years
Release date: 13 February 2007, 17:00
Credit: NASA, ESA, and K. Noll (STScI)

Field of view of NGC 2440 (ground-based image): This is a 3°x3° field of view of NGC 2440 region, taken by a ground-based telescope.

Name: NGC 2440
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Planetary
Category: Nebulae
Constellation: Puppis
Distance: 4000 light years
Release date: 13 February 2007, 17:00
Credit: Digitized Sky Survey 2