M101 Composite Image: Hubble Data (Green Component)

The yellow color is Hubble's view in visible light. Most of this light comes from stars, and they trace the same spiral structure as the dust lanes.

About the colours

Yellow/green: F435W (B), F555W (V)), and F814W (I)

About the data

This image was created from HST data from the following proposals: 9490 : K. Kuntz (Johns Hopkins University) 9492 : F. Bresolin (University of Hawaii) 5210 : J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) 5397 : J. Mould (NOAO) 6829 : Y.-C. Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana) The Hubble exposures have been superimposed onto ground-based images, visible at the edge of the image, taken at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii, and at the 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Arizona.