Barred Spiral Galaxy COSMOS 1705033

Barred spiral galaxy COSMOS 1705033 is located 3.8 billion light-years away from Earth. The galaxy is part of a landmark study of more than 2,000 spiral galaxies from the largest galaxy census conducted by the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The observations are part of the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS). Astronomers assembled this image from observations taken between fall 2003 and spring 2005 with Hubble and the Subaru Telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

About the colours

White: F814W (I) Blue: Suprime-Cam B Green: Suprime-Cam V Red: Suprime-Cam R

About the data

K. Sheth (Caltech), D. Elmegreen (Vassar College), B. Elmegreen (IBM/ T. J. Watson Center, NY), N. Scoville (Caltech), P. Capak, R. Ellis, M. Salvato, and L. Spalsbury (Caltech), R. Abraham (University of Toronto), E. Anthanassoula (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille), B. Mobasher (University of California, Riverside), E. Schinnerer (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg), L. Strubbe and A. West (University of California, Berkeley), M. Rich (University of California, Los Angeles), and M. Carollo (ETH Zurich).

Hubble data PI: Scoville: 9822 ; 10092 Hubble data PI: Taniguchi